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Beware Google Maps

February 12, 2008 – 8:33 pm

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Will Yahoo! and the Others Change Their China Policies Now?

November 14, 2007 – 9:57 am

Shi landed in trouble three years ago when the Chinese government prohibited journalists to report on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in 1989.
When Shi forwarded the notice to human rights groups, the Chinese government pressured Yahoo to give them the name of the account holder, and they did so. Shi [...]

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Google’s Emotionless Blogspot Robots Kill Google’s Blog

August 10, 2007 – 9:17 am

A friend of mine recently told me about some troubles he had when Blogspot’s spam detection system decided that his blog was a sblog (spam blog). The process of verifying that he was a person and not a spam robot was a little annoying, but the real problem is that he could have lost [...]

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High ground, a Corporate Illusion

June 16, 2007 – 8:18 pm

We don’t view that kind of activity as an appropriate activity for one partner to do to another…
—eBay spokesman Hani Durzy

eBay was a bit upset because Google planned an event to promote Google Checkout on the same night eBay is holding a Paypal event. As payback eBay pulled all their ads with Google and [...]

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