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Former Justice Department chief privacy officer Jane Horvath once criticized the government subpoena in Gonzales v Google; she joined Google's legal team…
Speculation as to why Google's paid clicks have flattened in January has led to further speculation that a recession has caused consumers to do less search-initiated shopping. Hitwise's Bill Tancer has information that suggests otherwise.(It occurs to me also that investors have been spoiled by Google's constant growth, as even when Google grows there is disappointment that there wasn't more growth. And flat returns now…
Reports issued by Citigroup and Bear Stearns based on information from comScore about paid clicks noted the flat January suffered by Google, as well as a pleasant surprise for Yahoo.
Yesterday's FCC "hearing" to discuss Comcast's interference with BitTorrent traffic was more "dogpile on the cable shill." Comcast chose executive VP David Cohen as the bullet-catcher/gauntlet-runner/sacrificial lamb, and Verizon sent its own executive VP, Tom Tauke, presumably for moral support.
We haven't yet reached the point at which somebody rhymes OOXML with "hell" and starts chanting. Yet Google's far from happy with Microsoft's submission of Office Open XML as an international standard, and has publicly said as much on its corporate blog.
We haven't yet been promised an update, much less a timeline or any specifics relating to its release. Still, users of Google Finance have been asked to fill out a rather long survey, and it looks like this is a chance for people to influence the service's future.
