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•
For
his sincere efforts in saving the
rules of nutrality throughout the
world, Eric Schmidt, Google's
CEO
was
named as Television International
Magazine, Person of the
Month -
October
2009.
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--Google
bids in Los Angeles for a
$7.25-million
contract.
•
• City
officials were told that both
Google's CEO Eric Schmidt, and
Microsoft Chief Executive Steve
Ballmer -- "would be more than
happy to come and visit with us,"
said City Councilman Tony
Cardenas, who chairs the
council's information and
technology committee.
•
• As
Google grows to a world
class power house, so has Google
CEO Eric Schmidt. In early
August, Eric resigned from Apple
Computer's board of directors --
to balance his global input in
dealing with governments, and the
Internet.
•
• Schmidt's
appointment to Apple was seen by
many bloggers as a strategic move
against a mutual foe: Microsoft.
But some were wondering whether a
closer partnership between the
two companies will just create
another giant to deal with.
•
• Blog
community
response:
"No one can outspend
Microsoft, but one can outsmart
them. An Apple-Google informal
alliance is one way of taking on
Microsoft and its coterie.
•••
Google
founders Larry Page and Sergey
Brin recruited Eric Schmidt from
Novell, where he led that
company's strategic planning,
management and technology
development as chairman and CEO.
•
•
Since coming to Google, Eric has
focused on building the corporate
infrastructure needed to maintain
Google's rapid growth as a
company and on ensuring that
quality remains high while
product development cycle times
are kept to a minimum.
•
•
Along with Larry and Sergey, Eric
shares responsibility for
Google's day-to-day operations.
Eric's Novell experience
culminated a 20-year record of
achievement as an Internet
strategist, entrepreneur and
developer of great technologies.
His well-seasoned perspective
perfectly complements Google's
needs as a young and rapidly
growing search engine with a
unique corporate culture. •••
Prior
to his appointment at Novell,
Eric was chief technology officer
and corporate executive officer
at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where
he led the development of Java,
Sun's platform-independent
programming technology, and
defined Sun's Internet software
strategy.
•
•
Before joining Sun in 1983, he
was a member of the research
staff at the Computer Science Lab
at Xerox Palo Alto Research
Center (PARC), and held positions
at Bell Laboratories and Zilog.
•
•
Eric has a bachelor of science
degree in electrical engineering
from Princeton University, and a
master's and Ph.D. in computer
science from the University of
California-Berkeley. In 2006,
Eric was elected to the National
Academy of Engineering, which
recognized his work on "the
development of strategies for the
world's most successful Internet
search engine
company."
•••
Schmidt
told the audience of party
activists and members of
Parliament that they had a duty
to help create an environment
where everyone can freely access
data on the Internet. He also
acknowledged that the rapid
growth of the Web meant that some
politicians had
concerns.
•••
"The
Internet is democratizing
knowledge," Schmidt said. "But
it's also like a child, testing
its powers for the first time.
Governments are struggling to
work out what to do about it, and
they have concerns, such as over
privacy."
•••
Restrictions
may be tempting, but they aren't
likely to quell the tidal wave of
online information, he
said.
•••
"My
advice is, don't bet against it.
Again and again, people forget
that the Internet is pervasive
and they try and hold back
information when the Internet
makes everything available,"
Schmidt warned.
02.
TIMELINE /
Dr.
Eric E. Schmidt joined Google as
chairman and chief executive
officer in 2001.
•
2001
- January-February - Google
answers more than 100 million
searches per day. Google acquires
Deja.com's Usenet archive dating
back to 1995. Google releases new
wireless search technology
specifically designed for i-mode
mobile phones in Japan. Vizzavi's
European multi-access portal
chooses Google for its search
engine. Google also launches
Google PhoneBook, which provides
publicly available phone numbers
and addresses search
results.
•
2001
- March-April - Dr. Eric
Schmidt, chairman and CEO of
Novell and a former CTO at Sun
Microsystems, joins Google as
chairman of the board of
directors. Google powers search
services at Yahoo! Japan, Fujitsu
NIFTY and NEC BIGLOBE, the top
three portals in Japan, as well
as corporate sites Procter &
Gamble, IDG.net (comprising 300
sites), Vodaphone, and
MarthaStewart.com. •
2001
- May-June - Handspring
integrates Google's search
technology into its Blazer web
browser, available for any
Palm-based handheld computer.
Google powers 130 portal and
destination sites in 30
countries. Google adds Yahoo!,
Procter & Gamble, IDG.net
(comprising more than 300 sites),
Vodafone, MarthaStewart.com,
Sprint and Handspring to its
growing list of search services
customers. Google's advertising
programs attract more than 350
Premium Sponsorship advertisers
and thousands of AdWords
advertisers, and delivers
clickthrough rates four to five
times higher than clickthrough
rates for traditional banner
ads. •
2001
- Google offers country
domains in the U.K., Germany,
France, Italy, Switzerland,
Canada, Japan, and Korea. Users
can select Google's interface in
nearly 40 non-English languages.
Users can also restrict their
searches to pages written in any
one of 26 languages supported by
Google's language search
capability. Google's automatic
translation feature translates
pages found in the search results
into a user's preferred
language. •
2001
- July-Augus - Dr. Eric E.
Schmidt is appointed new Google
CEO while co-founders Larry Page
and Sergey Brin become president,
products and president,
technology respectively. Google
wins another Webby, this time in
the new Best Practices category.
Google brings search to Cingular
Wireless users and to more than
300 of Sony's corporate websites.
New Google Image Search index
launches with 250 million images
and date range search becomes
available through the Google
advanced search page. Search
patterns, trends and surprises
are published in the Google
Zeitgeist. Google partners with
Logitech to provide
iTouch™-enabled mice and
keyboard users instant access to
the Google search engine. •
2001
- September-October - Google
purchases the technology assets
of Outride, Inc. Universo Online
(UOL) partners with Google to
provide millions of UOL users
throughout Brazil and Latin
America immediate access to the
Google search engine. The new
tabbed home page interface goes
live on Google.com and 25
international sites. With the
addition of Arabic and Turkish,
Google users can now limit their
searches to web pages written in
28 languages. The Google Toolbar
launches versions in five new
languages. Google provides search
to Lycos Korea users. Google
partners with AT&T Wireless
to provide AT&T Digital
PocketNet® customers access
to the world's largest search
engine. Google expands
partnership with NEC to provide
site search for NEC's corporate
website. Google launches file
type search and expands its
search into more than a dozen
formats. •
2001
- November-December - Google
increases the size and scope of
searchable information available
through the Google Search Engine
to 3 billion web documents.
Included in the 3 billion web
documents is an archive of Usenet
messages dating back to 1981.
Google offers users an overview
of the day's news with Google
News Headlines. With the addition
of an advanced search page and a
larger collection of images,
Google Image Search comes out of
beta. Google launches a beta test
of Google Catalog Search and
enables users to search and
browse more than 1,100 mail-order
catalogs. Google continues global
expansion with new sales offices
in Hamburg, Germany and Tokyo,
Japan. Google publishes a unique
retrospective on 2001 search
patterns and trends with the
Year-End Google Zeitgeist. •
2002
- January-February - Google
announces the availability of the
Google Search Appliance, an
integrated hardware/software
solution that extends the power
of Google to corporate intranets
and web servers. To commemorate
its third year of delivering the
best search experience on the
web, Google initiates its first
annual Programming Contest.
Earthlink launches a redesigned
search function powered by the
Google search engine. Google
launches AdWords Select™, an
updated version of the AdWords
self-service advertising system
with a number of new
enhancements, including
cost-per-click (CPC)-based
pricing. •
2002
- Google is honored with
"Outstanding Search Service",
"Best Image Search Engine", "Best
Design", "Most Webmaster Friendly
Search Engine", and "Best Search
Feature" (Google Toolbar and
Google Cache) in the 2001 Search
Engine Watch Awards. Google
continues the expansion of its
global capabilities by launching
interface translations for
Belarusian, Javanese, Occitan,
Thai, Urdu, Klingon, Bihari, and
Gujarati, bringing the total
number of interface language
options to 74. Google also
increases the number of languages
restricts to 35 with the
additions of Bulgarian, Catalan,
Croatian, Indonesian, Serbian,
Slovak, and Slovenian. •
2002
- March-April - Google
enhances its search service with
several new features designed to
enrich search and navigation on
the World Wide Web. A beta
version of Google News is
launched which presents
continuously updated information
culled from many of the world's
news sources. The company offers
Google Compute, a new Google
Toolbar feature that accesses
idle cycles on Google users'
computers for working on complex
scientific problems. The first
beneficiary of this effort is
Folding@home, a non-profit
research project at Stanford
University that is trying to
understand the structure of
proteins so they can develop
better treatments for a number of
illnesses. •
2002
- Google reaches out to the
software developer community with
the Google Web APIs service,
which enables programmers and
researchers to develop software
that accesses billions of web
documents as a resource in their
applications. PigeonRank, an
April's Fools play on our own
patented PageRank technology, is
revealed on the Google home page.
Google's founders, Larry Page and
Sergey Brin, are named to
InfoWorld's list of "Top Ten
Technology Innovators" and Google
wins an M.I.T Sloan eBusiness
award as the "Student's
Choice." •
2002
- May-June - Google and AOL
announce a search services and
syndicated advertising agreement
to provide results to AOL's 34
million members and millions of
visitors to AOL.com. Google
launches Google Labs
(http://labs.google.com), where
users can play with Google's
latest search technologies while
they're still in the early stages
of development. Google also
reveals several new enhancements
to its popular Google Toolbar
software, including an
Experimental Features page
(linked from the bottom of the
Google Toolbar options page) that
offers the latest search tools
developed by the Google Toolbar
team. Seven new Google Toolbar
interface languages are
introduced, including traditional
and simplified Chinese, Catalan,
Polish, Swedish, Russian, and
Romanian. With the addition of
these languages, the Google
Toolbar is now available in 20
interface languages. •
2002
- Google continues its
international expansion, opening
an office in Paris to complement
its existing international
offices in London, Toronto,
Hamburg and Tokyo. Google
announces the winner of the 2002
Google Programming Contest, its
first. The $10,000 prize goes to
Daniel Egnor of New York, who
created a geographic search
program that enables users to
search for web pages within a
specified geographic area. •
2002
- July - August - Google and
Ask Jeeves announce a syndicated
advertising agreement to provide
Google ads on Ask.com properties.
An agreement is signed with
InfoSpace.com to provide Google
advertising and search results on
InfoSpace.com and its properties
including Dogpile, MetaCrawler,
WebCrawler, and Excite, among
others. And a syndicated
advertising and search services
agreement is inked with AT&T
for its AT&T WorldNet
service. The Google Index
increases in size to nearly 2.5
billion web pages. Google adds
former Sun Microsystems executive
George Reyes to its management
team as Chief Financial Officer.
Google hosts its first
GoogleDance at the Googleplex,
entertaining more than 500
attendees from the Search Engine
Strategies conference in San
Jose, Calif., with food, drink,
music, and lively
conversation. •
2002
- September - October -
Google takes its self-service
advertising program to a global
audience, launching the Google
AdWords service in the United
Kingdom, Germany, France, and
Japan. Google announces the
GB-5005, a midrange Google Search
Appliance that complements the
existing GB-1001 and GB-8008,
launched in February, 2002.
Google also introduces an updated
beta version of its Google News
product, bringing to market the
first-ever news service compiled
solely by computer algorithms
without human intervention.
Google News crawls approximately
4,000 online news sources
continuously throughout the
day. •
2002
- Google continues its
international expansion,
launching Bosnia and Sinhalese
(Sri Lanka) language interfaces
and its Google.ie Irish site,
offering both English and Gaelic.
Google makes available 16 new
versions of the Google Toolbar,
including Czech, Elmer Fudd,
Farsi, Hebrew, Slovak, and Thai.
Google receives the IDGNow! "Best
Search Engine" Internet Award and
the San Francisco Business Times'
"Crowd Pleaser" HotTech Award.
Google remembers to celebrate its
fourth birthday with a special
home page logo created by
assistant webmaster Dennis
Hwang. •
2002
- November - December -
Google introduces a beta version
of Froogle, a product search
engine that enables users to
search for millions of products
across the web. Google further
expands by introducing sites in
Australia, Finland, Greece,
Singapore, United Arab Emirates,
Poland, and Thailand, bringing to
40 the number of its
international domains. Google
expands the size of its web index
to more than 4 billion web
documents. Yahoo! Japan joins
Google's global advertising
syndication network. Google
releases its second annual
Year-End Google Zeitgeist,
highlighting search trends and
patterns that mirror the key
social and news events of
2002 •
2003
- January - February - Google
acquires Pyra Labs, creator of
web self-publishing tool Blogger.
International expansion
continues, adding Google Paraguay
and Google Puerto Rico domains to
the list of available countries.
Google releases two new Google
Labs experiments &endash;
Google Viewer, which enables a
surfer to view search results as
a scrolling slide show, and
Google WebQuotes, which
incorporates quotes taken from
other sites to provide third
party commentary on search
results. Google introduces its
advertising programs in Italy and
opens a sales office in Milan.
Interbrand, an international
branding consultancy, names
Google the 2002 Brand of the
Year. Wired magazine awards its
4th Annual Wired Rave "Business
People of the Year" Award to
Google co-founders Larry Page and
Sergey Brin, and CEO Eric
Schmidt. •
2003
- March - April - Google
surpasses 100,000 active
advertisers in its Google AdWords
program. Google announces its new
content-targeted advertising
program and the acquisition of
Applied Semantics, to strengthen
and enhance the program's
underlying technology. Support
for two new languages, Xhosa and
Zulu, and 12 new international
domains are added to bring the
total available to 63 domains and
88 languages. New customers are
announced including Amazon.com
and Walt Disney Internet Group
properties. Google Labs adds
Google Compute, a toolbar feature
that donates a computer's idle
time to scientific research.
Google introduces its advertising
programs in Australia and opens a
sales office in Sydney. •
2003
- May - June - Google
AdSense, a program designed to
maximize the revenue potential of
a website by serving highly
relevant ads specific to the
content of the page, launches
with initial partners, including
ABC.com, HowStuffWorks, Internet
Broadcasting Systems, Inc., Lycos
Europe, Knight Ridder Digital,
About.com, CNET and others.
Google and MapQuest sign an
agreement to display Google's
sponsored links on MapQuest maps
and directions pages. Google wins
the Webby People's Voice Award
for Technical Achievement. BtoB
Magazine names Google the No. 3
top business-to-business
advertising property. Google News
wins a Webby Award in the News
category and is expanded to local
versions for English-language
domains, including Canada,
Australia, New Zealand, U.K. and
India. Version 2.0 of the Google
Toolbar is released and includes
new functions such as a pop-up
blocker and autofill, which can
automatically fill in the fields
of a form with a user's
information. Google introduces
its advertising program in the
Benelux region and opens a sales
office in Amsterdam. •
2003
- July - August - Google
announces additional customers of
the Google Search Appliance,
including Xerox, Pfizer, the U.S.
Army, Procter & Gamble,
Nextel Communications, Hitachi
Data Systems and others. Google
launches new international
domains including Denmark,
Azerbaijan, El Salvador, Saint
Vincent and the Grenadines,
India, Malaysia and Libya,
bringing the total of Google's
worldwide sites to 82. Google
signs online weather site,
weather.com, as a partner for its
web search, AdWords and AdSense
programs. A calculator function
is launched, enabling users to
solve mathematic problems by
entering numeric expressions into
the google.com or the Google
Toolbar search boxes. The new
version of the Google Toolbar
that includes a pop-up blocker
and form autofill, originally
introduced in June 2003, is
launched out of beta. Google News
launches in German and French,
the first non-English language
versions of the news service. •
2003
- September - October -
Google Glossary is launched,
enabling users to use the
Google.com search field to
retrieve definitions that Google
has found on the Internet for a
specific term or concept.
Additionally, two new projects
are made available on Google Labs
&endash; Search by Location,
which enables users to find
information by geographic
location, and Google News Alerts,
an automatic news alert system
that notifies subscribers via
e-mail about the latest Google
News listings related to a
specified subject. Google
introduces enhancements to its
AdWords service, including a
conversion tracking tool and
expanded match technology. Google
continues its growth
internationally, opening a new
sales office in Madrid and
introducing a beta version of
Google News in Spanish •
2003
- November - December - The
Google Deskbar, a free software
download which enables users to
search Google without using a web
browser, is introduced on Google
Labs. Google celebrates the 100th
anniversary of flight with a
special 'Wright Flyer' logo on
its homepage. A new layout is
unveiled for Froogle, Google's
product search engine (beta) that
enables users to search for
millions of products across the
web. Several new features are
made available to Google AdWords
users including a visual
click-through rate indicator and
a refined billing summary page.
Slovakia is the latest domain to
join the growing list of Google
international domains. Several
new search features are launched
on Google.com that enable users
to search for flight information,
track USPS, UPS or Federal
Express packages, and look up
area codes and VIN
information. •
2004
- January - February -
Brandchannel again names Google"
Brand of the Year," as the site's
index increases to 4.28 billion
web pages. ABC News marks the
occasion by naming Larry and
Sergey "Persons of the Week."
Google consolidates much of its
Mountain View operations into a
new headquarters building. •
2004
- March - April - Google
introduces personalized search on
Google Labs, enabling users to
specify their interests and to
adjust the level of customization
in their search results, based on
that profile. On April 1, Google
posts plans to open a research
facility on the Moon and
announces a new web-based mail
service called Gmail that will
include a gigabyte of free
storage for each user. The
service also includes a powerful
search engine to locate and
retrieve messages, which are
displayed in a "conversation
view" that chronologically
arranges all emails sent or
received with the same subject
line. Gmail also includes
relevant advertising delivered
with the same technology that
scans web pages as part of the
AdSense service. The AdWords
program itself is enhanced with
the addition of local search
targeting capability, enabling
advertisers to specify a
geographic range for delivery of
their ads. •
2004
- •
2006
- Profits nearly double in
3Q 3rd quarter profit
that catapulted 92%, handily
beating expectations as users
increasingly clicked on
advertisements. See Bay Area
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•
2006
- Google To Run HQ On Solar
Power •
2006
- Oct. 9 - Google buys
YouTube for
$1.65bn Google is
buying video-sharing website for
$1.65bn in shares. The companies
will continue to operate
independently •
2006
- Oct. 6 - Google In Talks To
Acquire YouTube •
2006
- Jul. 20 -2Q earnings soar
past expectations The
company earned $721.1 million, or
$2.33 per share. Comapre to the
net income of $342.8 million last
year •
2006
- Jun. 7 - Google goes to
Congress •
2006
- Apr. 20 - Quarter profit
soars •
2006
- Mar. 23 - Google Will Be
Added To S&P 500 •
2006
- Jan. 31 - Profits Nearly
Double, Off Analyst Target •
2006
- Jan 1 - Google Opens Doors
Of Online Video •
2007
- Jan. 6 - Google Opens Doors
Of Online WiFi. •
2008
- Jan. 6 - Google Opens Doors
Of Online Wireless gPhones. • 2009 -
August 22 - Ophan Book
Project. Three powerful
technology companies have banded
together to oppose Google Inc.'s
proposed settlement with the
Authors Guild and the Assn. of
American Publishers over the
Internet search giant's book
scanning project. CLICK
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2009
- Sep 28 -Google
bids in Los Angeles for a
$7.25-million contract to replace
an outdated e-mail system.
City officials have been told
that both Google CEO Eric Schmidt
or Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
and "would be more than happy to
come and visit with us," said
City Councilman Tony Cardenas,
who chairs the council's
information and technology
committee. As
Google and Microsoft battle for
dominance in technology, a
skirmish in Los Angeles City Hall
is offering a rare public glimpse
into a rivalry that could help
determine the fortunes of both
companies -- and, quite possibly,
how workers in the future will
communicate.
•• •Mayor
Antonio Villaraigosa favors the
effort to modernize the e-mail
system. His spokesman, Matt
Szabo, described the current
software, which is neither from
Microsoft nor Google, as a slow,
"inefficient, crash-prone e-mail
system."
•• •Los
Angeles city officials last year
solicited bids for a new system.
Both Microsoft and Google
submitted proposals; Google Apps
got the nod because city
administrators believed it would
be cheaper and less
labor-intensive.
•• •The
matter is expected to go to the
budget committee, headed by
Parks, on Oct. 5. Parks' office
said he was still reviewing the
proposal and had not yet stated
his position.
•• •Google
recently announced it would
launch a "government cloud" next
year, designed to meet the more
strenuous security and regulatory
requirements of government
entities.
•• •To
date, some of Google's
highest-profile converts have
been college campuses. Officials
at UC Davis, Notre Dame and
Arizona State University all
reported that students were happy
with the system -- and that
administrators were happy with
the cost.
•• •"I
think it's one of the most
amazing things we've done for
students in the last five years,"
said Kari Barlow, an assistant
vice president in Arizona State's
technology office.
•• •With
those victories under its belt,
Google appears bent on gaining
even more ground. In a rare move,
the advertising-shy company
launched a billboard campaign in
San Francisco, New York, Boston
and Chicago last month
encouraging businesses to switch
to Google Apps.
•• •"Just
heard about going Google," the
boards said on the first day of
the campaign. "I want to know
more."
••
2010
-
•
Q
- Did Google's YouTube Really
Infringe on Viacom
Copyrights?
•••
NO, Says.
U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton
in New York ON Jun 24,
2010.
•••
Google
Inc.'s YouTube didn't violate
Viacom Inc. copyrights when
content including clips from its
MTV and Comedy Central cable
television channels were posted
on the video-sharing website, a
judge ruled.
•••
U.S.
District Judge Louis Stanton in
New York yesterday said YouTube
wasn't liable for infringement.
Viacom, controlled by Sumner
Redstone, had sought at least $1
billion in damages, according to
a revised complaint filed in
April 2008.
•••
Stanton
agreed with YouTube that it was
protected by the safe-harbor
provision of the federal Digital
Millennium Copyright Act, which
says a service provider isn't
liable for infringement if it
removes material from its site
when notified by the copyright
owner.
•••
"The
provider must know of the
particular case before he can
control it," Stanton said in the
ruling. "The provider need not
monitor or seek out facts
indicating such
activity."
•••
More than
24 hours worth of video is
uploaded to the YouTube site
every minute, the judge said.
YouTube had a policy of removing
infringing content from its site
and banning users after three
such offenses, according to the
ruling.
•••
Both
companies asked Stanton in March
to decide the case in their favor
without a trial. Viacom said
YouTube benefited financially by
allowing users to post and share
programs including "The Daily
Show With Jon Stewart" and "South
Park" on its website without
authorization. Appeal Planned.
(Source: Bloomberg.
Harris/Jeffrey).
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Google TV project at I/O 2010.
The Open Platform will Bring the
Internet to the big TV
Screen.
•••
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (May 20,
2010) &emdash; Today at the
Google I/O developer conference
in San Francisco, leading
industry players announced the
development of Google
TV&emdash;an open platform that
adds the power of the web to the
television viewing experience,
ushering in a new category of
devices for the living room.
Intel, Sony, and Logitech,
together with Best Buy, DISH
Network and Adobe, joined Google
(NASDAQ: GOOG) on stage to
announce their support for Google
TV.
•••
Over the past decade, the
Internet has created
unprecedented opportunity for
innovation and development across
the world, but so far the web has
largely been absent from living
rooms. With Google TV, consumers
will now be able to search and
watch an expanded universe of
content available from a variety
of sources including TV
providers, the web, their
personal content libraries, and
mobile applications.
•••
Google, Intel, Logitech and Sony
have all Joined Together to
Deliver Google TV Platform.
Sellers of the
product:
DISH Network, Best Buy,
Adobe to Support the group to
Bringing in the Devices to
Market.
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Schmidt
03.
Special
Feature
/
102GoogleScanDealOrphanBooks"ORPHAN
BOOK SCANS". Google
book scanning project gains three
major tech opponents / Microsoft,
Yahoo and Amazon have signed on
to a coalition that opposes the
search giant's proposed
settlement with the Authors Guild
and the Assn. of American
Publishers.
•• •
August 22, 2009 / Three
powerful technology companies
have banded together to oppose
Google Inc.'s proposed settlement
with the Authors Guild and the
Assn. of American Publishers over
the Internet search giant's book
scanning project.
•• •Microsoft
Corp., Yahoo Inc. and Amazon.com
Inc. have signed on to a
coalition being assembled by the
Internet Archive and Gary Reback,
a Silicon Valley antitrust
lawyer, said Peter Brantley,
director of the Internet Archive,
a San Francisco nonprofit that is
trying to build a free digital
library of Internet content.
•• •Though
the coalition has not been
formally announced, several
library and journalism
associations have already agreed
to take part, including the New
York Library Assn., the Special
Libraries Assn. and the American
Society of Journalists and
Authors. The group is expected to
issue a joint statement next
week.
•• •The
coalition's members include
players who normally would be
sitting at opposite sides of the
table. Reback, for example, is
known for instigating the
antitrust efforts against
Microsoft. That they have agreed
to join forces suggests the
magnitude of the concern raised
by Google's book scanning
efforts, Brantley said.
•• •"By
having a set of organizations
speaking together, we can
demonstrate the seriousness which
we all confront by the issues
raised by the proposal," Brantley
said in an interview. "We are all
united in our understanding of
the core issues, such as its
impact on competitiveness and the
threat to reader privacy."
•• •The
settlement, reached last October
and subject to court approval,
would allow Google to continue to
digitize millions of out-of-print
books, with the help of several
of the nation's largest
libraries.
•• •The
agreement sets up a way for
authors and publishers to get 70%
of the sale of those books, with
Google keeping 30%. It also lets
Google sell ads around book
searches that involve
out-of-print books that are still
under copyright protection.
•• •With
a Sept. 4 deadline for comments
on the settlement fast
approaching, a growing number of
parties have voiced their
opposition in recent weeks,
including William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment, which represents
hundreds of writers, the National
Writers Union and a group of
professors from the University of
California.
•• •Much
of the concern stems from fear
that Google would have the power
to raise prices to prohibitive
levels or that Google would not
guarantee the privacy of its
readers.
•• •The
agreement is also the subject of
a Justice Department antitrust
inquiry.
Microsoft Corp.,
Yahoo Inc. and Amazon.com Inc.
have signed on to a coalition
being assembled by the Internet
Archive and Gary Reback, a
Silicon Valley antitrust lawyer,
said Peter Brantley, director of
the Internet Archive, a San
Francisco nonprofit that is
trying to build a free digital
library of Internet content.
•• •Though
the coalition has not been
formally announced, several
library and journalism
associations have already agreed
to take part, including the New
York Library Assn., the Special
Libraries Assn. and the American
Society of Journalists and
Authors. The group is expected to
issue a joint statement next
week.
•• •The
coalition's members include
players who normally would be
sitting at opposite sides of the
table. Reback, for example, is
known for instigating the
antitrust efforts against
Microsoft. That they have agreed
to join forces suggests the
magnitude of the concern raised
by Google's book scanning
efforts, Brantley said.
•• •"By
having a set of organizations
speaking together, we can
demonstrate the seriousness which
we all confront by the issues
raised by the proposal," Brantley
said in an interview. "We are all
united in our understanding of
the core issues, such as its
impact on competitiveness and the
threat to reader privacy."
•• •The
settlement, reached last October
and subject to court approval,
would allow Google to continue to
digitize millions of out-of-print
books, with the help of several
of the nation's largest
libraries.
•• •The
agreement sets up a way for
authors and publishers to get 70%
of the sale of those books, with
Google keeping 30%. It also lets
Google sell ads around book
searches that involve
out-of-print books that are still
under copyright protection.
•• •With
a Sept. 4 deadline for comments
on the settlement fast
approaching, a growing number of
parties have voiced their
opposition in recent weeks,
including William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment, which represents
hundreds of writers, the National
Writers Union and a group of
professors from the University of
California.
•• •Much
of the concern stems from fear
that Google would have the power
to raise prices to prohibitive
levels or that Google would not
guarantee the privacy of its
readers.
•• •The
agreement is also the subject of
a Justice Department antitrust
inquiry.
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/ Schmidt speaks out. •••
"The
Internet is democratizing
knowledge," Schmidt said. "But
it's also like a child, testing
its powers for the first time.
Governments are struggling to
work out what to do about it, and
they have concerns, such as over
privacy."
•••
Restrictions
may be tempting, but they aren't
likely to quell the tidal wave of
online information, he
said.
•••
"My
advice is, don't bet against it.
Again and again, people forget
that the Internet is pervasive
and they try and hold back
information when the Internet
makes everything available,"
Schmidt
warned
•••
Schmidt
told the audience that Google
even proved to be a life-saver to
one person. "He typed his
symptoms into Google, and got a
message back that said, 'You are
having a heart attack. Call the
emergency services now.' That's
why we tell our employees that
it's important that Google is
fast. Otherwise people
die."
•••
Google's
CEO also insisted that "the
Internet can, and I hope will, be
a revolutionary force in
repressive societies." Earlier
this year, Google was widely
attacked for censoring the search
results it supplies to its
Chinese users, but it has also
refused to hand over data on
searches to the U.S.
authorities.
•••
But
Schmidt won his biggest reaction
from the audience when he made a
joke about blogging. "Most blogs
have precisely one reader -- the
blogger themselves."
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