March 2006
Google Operating System: Marissa Mayer prefers Pine to Gmail
"Marissa Mayer, VP, Search Products and User Experience at Google confesses to CNN Money that she doesn't use Gmail for her business mail". -- so they have an internal IMAP server, haven't they ?
IRsoft Code Repository » Scripts for Greasemonkey » Script for fixing redirecting links -- IRsoft
"This script removes links redirecting over certain files, such as http://example.org/go.php?link=http://www.google.com/. This would be transformed to http://www.google.com/".
February 2006
EFF: Breaking News - Google Copies Your Hard Drive - Government Smiles in Anticipation
by 1 other"Consumers Should Not Use New Google Desktop"
The Impact of Emerging Technologies: In Google We Trust - Technology Review
"Internet users should think carefully before relying on Gmail".
January 2006
google-censor-cache.jpg (JPEG Image, 831x539 pixels) - Scaled (94%)
by 1 otherGoogle removed its help entry on censorship.
OpenNet Initiative Blog » Blog Archive » Google.cn Filtering: How It Works
"For example, the domain news.bbc.co.uk has been removed from www.google.cn. Using Google’ “site:” modifier, a search for “site:news.bbc.co.uk” in google.cn returns no results and appears as if there is not such a website all".
Bloomberg.com: Bloomberg Columnists - If It Isn't Red, You Can't Read It on Google: William Pesek Jr.
"At the very least, Google should stop calling itself an Internet ``search engine'' in China. Its description should now be ``limited search engine'' or ``government-controlled search engine".
WSJ.com - Google to Offer Video Downloads, Software That Rivals Microsoft's
by 1 otherThe real news : " Google has developed its own digital-rights-management software to protect downloaded videos from piracy".
