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From darling to demon
August 31, 2005
Last week, the New York Times ran a big story suggesting that Google was becoming the next Microsoft - the company other tech companies love to hate. But the real confirmation that Google's image is taking a u-turn comes today, when the Onion skewers Google with one of its hilarious parodies - an article about the company's new "Google Purge" initiative to "destroy all the information it is unable to index." The big question now is: Will Google refuse to talk to Onion reporters for a year?
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http://nitnblogs.blogspot.com/2005/09/google-ahoy-browser-wars.html has an interesting pair of links on "new" google features as well as the browser wars.
Posted by: Nitin at September 21, 2005 05:59 AM
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The Atlantic article:
Is Google Making Us Stupid?"
Nick's new book:
"Future Shock for the web-apps era" -Fast Company
"Ominously prescient" -Kirkus Reviews
"Riveting stuff" -New York Post
Greatest hits
Avatars consume as much electricity as Brazilians
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock's avatar
Flight of the wingless coffin fly
Other writing
The end of corporate computing
Nick's last book:
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