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Comment Re:Google is NOT a search company ... (Score 1) 235

by archie on Sunday November 04, 2007 @02:44AM (#21229473) Attached to: Google As The Next Microsoft?

So you can put adwords in their system for targeting people who looked at the map of the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands? Either today or the week before? That'be using profiling. But you can't (as far as I know) so while they may be profiling, they're not using it for advertising.

Monopolies have the tendency of make competition hard (like not starting up because DR-DOS is running, saying 'you have a stupid OS'). How would that work on the web? 404's because they chose the wrong advertising agency?

Feed news.com: Taser links up with iRobot for stunning new products (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Thursday June 28, 2007 @03:33PM

Blog: It's a stun gun on a robot. The military wants them, and probably so do a lot of 13-year old boys.

Vint Cerf on Net Security, Hacking, and Acting 45

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 05, 2007 @02:46PM from the internet-hams dept.

ancientribe writes "Father of the Internet Vint Cerf talks candidly in an article on Dark Reading about his being a Googler, and the biggest problems with Internet security and what he sees as the most promising solutions. He says that he's only done a little casual hacking, and that the term 'hacker' no longer comes with the honor it once did. Cerf also reveals in this personal look at the Internet icon that his real dream was to be an actor."

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