Is Bing Copying Google’s Search Results? [Search Wars]
A Google engineer suggests Bing may be pilfering the search giant’s results, and has showed the results of Google’s digital sting as proof. Bing says the results offer little more than a lesson in “click fraud.” Shots fired! More »
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Google CEO Seeks Book Deal [Publishing]
Having failed to sell his “disaster” of a TV show, Eric Schmidt is now shopping a book proposal. Because, honestly, what else is Google’s CEO going to do? Oversee the biggest, most profitable and indispensable site on the internet? Please. More »
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Eric Schmidt Wants a TV Show [Google]
Google’s soon-to-be-ex CEO reportedly filmed a pilot for CNN as part of a year-long effort to find a TV job. The only problem: It was really, really bad. More »
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Facebook’s Trillion Dollar Dream [Hubris]
Facebook thinks it can become a trillion-dollar company, two sources tell Business Insider, or twice as valuable as Apple and Google combined. That will require very clever exploitation of private user data. But if anyone can do that, it’s Facebook! More »
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Will Google’s Wi-Fi Spying Engineer End Up In a South Korean Prison? [Privacy]
Nobody knows the identity of the rogue engineer who “accidentally” programmed Google’s Street View cars to slurp up emails, passwords and other data from nearby wi-fi networks. But South Korea wants to find out, and punish them. More »
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