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      House panel: Why did Google 'airbrush history?'

      Posted by Jeff from CNN

      Swapping the post-Katrina images and the ruin they revealed for others showing an idyllic city dumbfounded many locals and even sparked suspicions that the company and civic leaders were conspiring to portray the area's recovery progressing better than it really is.

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      Lessig: Make Way for Copyright Chaos

      Posted by Jeff from New York Times

      But 20 months ago, the Supreme Court reversed this wise policy of deference. Drawing upon common law-like power, the court expanded the Copyright Act in the Grokster case to cover a form of liability it had never before recognized in the context of copyright — the wrong of providing technology that induces copyright infringement. It announced this new form of liability even though at precisely the same time Congress was holding hearings about whether to amend the Copyright Act ...

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    • Google and taxes

      Posted by SoxFirst

      Google’s corporate motto is “don’t be evil”. Now, the Securities and exchange Commission is raasing questions about how the web search giant pays its taxes.

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    joefriday comments on:

    Google To Digitize Millions of Old Newspaper Pages

    LOL  , wow , just when you thought there couldnt be any more info that the web could provide, now "G" has coe up with this master pan to rule the wold with even more useless information to freeze up our hard drives.

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    3:46 am 9/27/08
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    Jeff comments on:

    eBay To Disallow Checks and Money Orders In US

    eBay has gone completely down the tubes. Meg Whitman gave a completely crock of s*** speech at the GOP convention. Her belief system may have been profitable thus far for ebay, but I suspect it’s heading downhill from here.

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    4:05 pm 9/22/08
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    srebrenicagenocideinfo comments on:

    Google plans to launch Web browser

    Way to go Google! I will be the first one to download "Chrome" - Google’s new browser!

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    10:29 pm 9/01/08
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    Jon comments on:

    New Google Friend Connect Tool Helps Sites Be More Friendly

    Marshall Kirkpatrick had an insightful, skeptical take on this.

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    7:24 pm 5/13/08
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    Damianmann comments on:

    New Google Friend Connect Tool Helps Sites Be More Friendly

    Ya…but it’s GOOGLE !!!???!!!

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    12:19 am 5/13/08
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    Jeff comments on:

    New Google Friend Connect Tool Helps Sites Be More Friendly

    This seems fairly limited and lame to me. Facebook is still way ahead.

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    10:47 pm 5/12/08
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    Damianmann comments on:

    Google's Shareholders Vote to Continue Censorship in China

    yeah…I agree the we may seem a bit much. But, then, I don’t see too many people up in arms over it either…therefore, "we" isn’t too far off.

    “So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating effect.

    eleanor roosevelt

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    7:29 pm 5/10/08
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    Jeff

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    Jeff is the founder of NewsCloud. He is also a freelance writer and blogs at Idealog.

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    okami

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    former US Marine, retired police. . .nothing of interest. . .

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