Google Gooses CNET
From the San Francisco Chronicle.
Google is upset with CNET. "Googling" someone, a common practice to look up information about someone using the Google search engine, was done by CNET on Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Google felt CNET revealed personal info about Schmidt in the article, CNET takes the position (correctly, in my opinion) that since the information was found publicly using the Google Search Engine, it was public info. Now Google is saying they won't speak to CNET reporters until August 2006. I guess it's ok for Google to provide information about you and me, but when their own goose is googled, they don't like it one bit.
Read the full article here.
Google is upset with CNET. "Googling" someone, a common practice to look up information about someone using the Google search engine, was done by CNET on Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Google felt CNET revealed personal info about Schmidt in the article, CNET takes the position (correctly, in my opinion) that since the information was found publicly using the Google Search Engine, it was public info. Now Google is saying they won't speak to CNET reporters until August 2006. I guess it's ok for Google to provide information about you and me, but when their own goose is googled, they don't like it one bit.
Read the full article here.
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