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If we showed you, we’d have to pixelate you

No Google street view for West 44th St (and sometimes 45th St too), between 7th and 8th Aves, in Manhattan:
Viacom?

performance.google.com

A new genre:
Street with a view.

Octopus’s garden

NYT:
Google Maps hasn’t quite heard of Mountain House:
Ths sponsored link homegain.com links to findmeaforeclosure.com…
…which has the same registrant as tracyrealestate.com:
(Both sites’ “Community” links are blank.)
Repeat ad nauseam nationwide.

Offhand economic indicator

Google layoffs.
Contributing factors:

advertising clients looking for lower expenditures and greater efficiencies;
laid-off workers spending more time smurfing the net;
broadband services cut off for nonpayment.

United Airlines crashes into event horizon

FT:
United Airlines plunged yesterday after a false report that the carrier had returned to bankruptcy court surfaced on the internet. A six-year-old Chicago Tribune story on United’s 2002 bankruptcy filing, spotted on a Google search yesterday morning by an investment newsletter, triggered a massive sell-off of the carrier’s shares until trading was halted. [...] United [...]

Proposed Google service

“Don’t be evil” is too passive and, above all, too simple. A minor mod like this…

Google may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Google must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
Google must protect its [...]

Google: ‘Privacy? Depends–where are you?’

A gaggle of campaigners (NAI, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, Michael Zimmer, etc) push Google to add a link to its privacy policy on its home page, and Google’s refusal sparks snark: for example, “Larry Page, the company’s co-founder, didn’t want a privacy link ‘on that beautiful clean home page,’ said one executive at a Google competitor” [...]

You’re not allowed to take pictures here

Google Maps streetview driver pulled over by police. “But, Officer, I was helping to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

(Google sightseeing)

gwikxcel

Google Operating System writes:

Google Spreadsheets added an option in the sharing dialog that allows anyone to view or edit the spreadsheet just by knowing the URL. Until now, you had to send an invitation URL that contained a secret code and the people you invited had to login using a Google account. If you click [...]