A typical day in the life of the Frenchman family in Long Valley, NJ: This morning my son wakes up early to boot up my old PC in my office. Why? He now knows how to use a PC, fire up Internet Explorer (I know I have to get him on Firefox), and log on to his Webkinz account to play one of three…
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Google Changes Everything
Imagine you are very rich and you have a big house. One evening you have guests over. One of the guests asks you where the toilet is. You give them instructions and off they go.
After a few turns they end up in the garden. They backtrack, apologize for their ignorance and ask you again for directi…
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Google Acquires Internet (May 2017)
Philipp Lenssen envisions our Google-future, 10 years out. For better or for worse.
MAY 12, 2017 – BUSINESSWIRE. Mountain View-based search giant Google Inc. today announced they’ve acquired the internet for the astounding sum of $2,455.5 billion in cash. The deal had been rumored in various searc…
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Google’s $90M Fraud Settlement: Interesting but How Relevant Is It?
Not sure if you saw this, but Google recently settled a $90 million lawsuit over click fraud….
The search business of Yahoo!, Walt Disney Co., Lycos Inc., LookSmart Ltd. and Findwhat.com Inc., which is now known as MIVA Inc. were also included in the lawsuit. As defined by Google, click fraud “i…
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