Or, more specifically, the Google boss got Googled and isn’t happy about it.<\/p>\n
CNetNews.com<\/a> ran an article demonstrating how easy it is to find personal information on Google, and as an example found some info about the Chief Executive. Google wasn’t very happy and complained to CNet about the use of the their CEO’s private information in the article and has now decided that it won’t talk to CNet for a whole year!<\/p>\n It’s just another case of a corporation not being happy about the way people use its tools, and I always find these kinds of things amusing.<\/p>\n Adobe threw a similar sort of strop a little while ago about people using ‘photoshop’ as a verb, such as ‘that image has been photoshopped’. Apparently we are supposed to say ‘that image has been altered using Adobe\u00ae Photoshop\u00ae Image Manipulation software’, and, yes, you are supposed to put those ‘registered trademark’ symbols in every time if you are typing that. Aww, poor ickle Adobe are getting in a stress that their company’s products are so good that everyone uses the name as a verb. Diddums.<\/p>\n I can understand that the Google boss might not want his personal information available online, but it’s the situation that the rest of the world is in because of Google, so either they need to work out a way to prevent this or they will have to learn to live with it. I suspect that it’s going to be the latter (but if it is they won’t be telling CNet about it until next year).<\/p>\n Source: http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/08\/08\/technology\/08google.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Or, more specifically, the Google boss got Googled and isn’t happy about it. CNetNews.com ran an article demonstrating how easy it is to find personal information on Google, and as an example found some info about the Chief Executive. Google wasn’t very happy and complained to CNet about the use of the their CEO’s private … Continue reading Google gets Googled<\/span>