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July 20, 2009
High-Tech News Distribution: A Dozen Organizations Say the Same Thing, and a Dozen More Bloggers Repeat It
Didja hear there was a train wreck? Didja hear there was a train wreck? Didja? Well, didja? Living in the Bay Area, you see more than your share of vehicles with barely an inch of paint visible beneath a nearly solid plastering of bumper stickers. If you're like me, such infestations inspire the fol ... More >>
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July 20, 2009
To the Moon, Alice! Google Homepage Touts Inaccurate Lunar Landing Anniversary.
Science news flash to supposed Google geniuses: Astronauts don't leave footprints on suns!Google, the ubiquitous search engine famously based on complex, supposedly-more-accurate-than-the-competition algorithms, Monday graced its homepage with a glaring, scientific error. The July 17 ... More >>
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September 2, 2009
Noe Valley and Mission residents say Google shuttles are evil
Science news flash to supposed Google geniuses: Astronauts don't leave footprints on suns!Google, the ubiquitous search engine famously based on complex, supposedly-more-accurate-than-the-competition algorithms, Monday graced its homepage with a glaring, scientific error. The July 17 ... More >>
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December 29, 2009
Quit the Internet and Dance: Six Things We'd Like to See Leave the Web in 2010
Photo via Natalee DOr at least go watch "Law and Order."6. The Reign of the Standard Blog Post Format We know it's been that way since links.net. But enough or at least less of the big picture/text below monotony. We're the people that invented The Segway and the Wii, surely we can figure out how ... More >>
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January 12, 2010
Google's Iron Curtain: Are Chinese Government Hackers Responsible?
In a monumental statement earlier today, Mountain View based Google announced that they were no longer censoring their search results in China -- and that if the Chinese government did not agree to these non-censored search results this would lead to a Google pull-out."We have evidence to suggest th ... More >>
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February 9, 2010
Food Ad FAIL: When Bargain Eating Attacks!
Hopefully you'll still be able to eat sushi after seeing this.This Google ad popped up during a random session of surfing local food blogs. It has managed the nearly impossible feat of putting us off of craving sushi for a minute and has evoked numerous bad '80s horror movie scenes in the process ... More >>
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February 9, 2010
The Evolution of Search: Siri, the "Do" Engine
While it was definitely sweet, Google's Super Bowl "Parisian love" ad was a pointed reminder that search has not seen any major transformations over the last decade. For as long as we've searched on the web, we've pretty much had the same experience: plug in some words, get a list to parse, rinse, r ... More >>
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February 10, 2010
Google Should Really Stick to its Core Competency
Google Image Search FAIL via Megan McCarthy's Facebook. Click to enlarge. In the estimation of many an Internet pundit, yesterday's launch of Google Buzz was pretty much a buzzkill. After briefly giving the rumored "Twitter-killer" a go ourselves, we'd like to offer yet another suggestion to the ... More >>
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February 18, 2010
S.F. 'Likely' to Enter Google's Fiber Network Sweepstakes
Google: It's a noun, a verb, and, soon enough, it'll be the Ryan Seacrest of a national, municipal contest determining who wins a brand new ultra-high speed fiber network -- only with discernible talent.The Bay Area-based search engine recently announced a plan to build a new fiber network in a yet- ... More >>
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March 10, 2010
Wiggle Me This: Google Cycling Directions Snub Famous San Francisco Bike Route
We bike commuters here at SF Weekly have eagerly awaited the launch of Google's bicycle-directions feature on its maps site. As of today, the wait is over. Along with suggested routes by car and public transit, Googlers in 150 cities can now query the best way to get from Point A to Point B under ... More >>
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March 22, 2010
Techies Optimistic S.F. Will Enter Google Fiber Sweepstakes
The city's technology mavens are anticipating the Board of Supervisors will tomorrow give them the go-ahead to enter Google's much-ballyhooed fiber sweepstakes. A sub-committee of supes last week unanimously sent a motion to the full board recommending San Francisco get in on Google's game. The M ... More >>
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March 22, 2010
Your Rundown on the Week in S.F. Government
C'mon, Mr. Mayor -- shave that follicle helmet for Google!Puzzling technological initiatives, close studies of dense municipal bureaucracies, garage regulations -- this week at City Hall ain't exactly a stroll down the carnival midway, but there's some important stuff on the table. And if you pay ... More >>
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March 22, 2010
Google China Redirect: So, What Do Chinese Users See?
In the first step towards a now inevitable pull out, Google side-stepped the Chinese government's search strictures this morning, as the formerly censored Google China (Google.com.cn) now redirects to the uncensored Google Hong Kong (Google.com.hk).
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March 26, 2010
Berkeley-Based Web Site Uncovers China's Scary Internet Censoring Instructions
What?! Googling 'guinea pig fights' again?!!Newspapers' tech and financial pages have been filled with headlines this week announcing Google's withdrawal from China. Apparently, the Mountain View-based search engine and all-purpose Web behemoth decided it had had enough of the authoritarian Chine ... More >>
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April 2, 2010
City Unsure Which San Franciscans Would Get Google Wi-Fi Coverage
We want it ... but we don't know where to put it As noted yesterday, San Francisco publicized its full application to enter the Google fiber network sweepstakes, which has taken on something of a Willy Wonka Golden Ticket feel -- but with delicious Wi-Fi fiber instead of chocolate. San Fran ... More >>
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May 5, 2010
Is Google Squared a Content-Snatching Death Star?
This search engine is fully operational...Google is a "digital vampire" in the words of Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton. Furthering the vampiric metaphor, the search engine exists to "just suck on your blood," in the words of HDNet owner Mark Cuban. Taking things to the next step, the Mountain View comp ... More >>
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June 1, 2010
Google Sued -- Street View Vehicles Accused of Spying
A Washington, D.C. man has claimed that Google's street view vehicles aren't just cruising around hoping to create point-of-view maps and catch the occasional sunbather in a compromising position. A lawsuit filed last week in the nation's capital alleges that the gargantuan company has been surre ... More >>
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June 26, 2010
Is Google About to Launch a Facebook Killer?
Should we brace ourselves for another round of tech news headlines with the word "killer" in them? According to Digg founder Kevin Rose, Google is about to launch a social profile service called, aptly, "Google Me." Rose stated on Twitter earlier today that he heard a "huge rumor" from a "very cred ... More >>
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June 29, 2010
'Google Me' is Real, Will Launch in 2010
A source very close to the matter told SF Weekly that Google Me does in fact exist, and that Google already has many engineers on the project, a potential rival to Facebook. The search engine is "getting very serious about social," and some early conjecture pegs Google Me as an OpenID project. That ... More >>
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July 2, 2010
Week in Gay: Carrie Prejean to Wed 'Jesus in Cleats'
Her prince has come!On Thursday, members of the LGBT media were invited to participate in some kind of weird press conference at the White House. Was it a show of good faith (this is a first for queer journalists) or just another attempt to appear attentive? An administration official named Melod ... More >>
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July 28, 2010
Google Bike Directions Fail: Quickest Route from Palo Alto to San Francisco Is 150 Turns?
Bicycling to Palo Alto may not be easy via Google directionsWe noted back in March, when Google's much-anticipated bicycle-directions function first launched, that the program had some glitches. (Among them was its apparent ignorance, in certain cases, of the famous San Francisco hill-avoiding bi ... More >>
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August 2, 2010
Google Sued For Collecting Payload Data In Street View Debacle
You can trust Google, right? Right? Two more plaintiffs have filed yet another class action lawsuit against Google for collecting private data as its cars drove around photographing every corner in the country -- and several other countries as well -- for Google Street View. The British governmen ... More >>
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August 16, 2010
Did 600 Google Employees Sign Petition Decrying Google-Verizon Proposal?
Gayle LaakmannDid 600 Google workers sign a petition critical of the company? That claim is still being, shall we say, assembled...On Friday, organizers of a petition against the controversial Google-Verizon joint proposal told SF Weekly that 600 Google employees had lent their signatures to the ... More >>
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September 8, 2010
Google Instant Search -- What Will You Do With The Five Seconds You Save?
We just saved two seconds finding this image! I'm not sure you and I will remember where we were when we received the news, on Sept. 8, 2010, that one no longer needs to hit return to view Google searches. (Your humble narrator was seated in his colleague's office, who bellowed, "This shit is rid ... More >>
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September 8, 2010
The Joy of Google Instant Search (Pics)
Audrey FukumanEarlier today, we took Google Instant Search out for a test drive. It accelerated fine, handled the corners well -- and wouldn't return "instant" results for words like "pornography" but had no trouble spitting out links for, say, "Holocaust." Porn, you see, is offensive. Google's n ... More >>
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November 16, 2010
Facebook vs. Google: Who Would You Rather Have Reading Your E-Mail?
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's announcement yesterday that his company is launching a consolidated e-mail/instant message/text message service has sent the technorati into a predictable tizzy. Facebook's new messaging feature is one of those tech innovations whose significance is tough to judge r ... More >>
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November 16, 2010
Will Google Hotpot Replace Yelp and Foursquare?
GoogleGoogle Hotpot ratings.We wish we had a new Mongolian or Chinese hotpot place to tell you about today. Unfortunately we just have Google Hotpot. Are Yelp and Foursquare not sufficiently filling up your Smartphone, time, and tummy? Well, here is yet another way to distract yourself, give ... More >>
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November 24, 2010
Google Pays Kickbacks -- Or So Say TechCrunch's Anonymous Hearsay Sources
If anonymous hearsay says it, it must be true.Is Google today's incarnation of Alan Freed, the 1950s R&B disc jockey accused of taking payments to play certain songs? TechCrunch cites anonymous sources suggesting something like that.A major agency "is pushing a ton of advertising dollars thro ... More >>
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November 30, 2010
How To Use Google Translate As a Beatbox: Sprechen Sie Deutsch?
Ditch this, use Google Translate instead.Well, here's something that will surprise anyone familiar with the crisp austerities of the German language: It makes a great beat box palette when used in Google translate. In fact, there's a comprehensive guide to using Google translate as a beatbox mach ... More >>
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January 28, 2011
Google Doesn't Want to Help You Steal Music Anymore
via Modernhumorist.comIn an effort to deter the masses from pirating music and movies, Google has blocked certain terms related to media piracy from their instant search and autocomplete, including words like Bittorrent, uTorrent, RapidShare, and Megaupload -- all of which are Internet tools and ... More >>
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February 1, 2011
Google Art Project Snubs Hometown SF Museums
Nothing to see hereGoogle Art Project, the company's new technology feature that allows you to see street views of museums, is offering 3D tours of galleries in Amsterdam, New York, and 15 other sites -- but not in San Francisco. That's right, Google is snubbing museums in its own backyard, inclu ... More >>
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March 2, 2011
Google Maps Says It's Not to Blame for Pedestrian Hit by Car
Google the phrase "common sense"If Google maps led you off a cliff, would you jump?Well, if you did make the plunge and got hurt in the process, the Bay Area media giant claims it wouldn't be at fault. Google is finding itself at the center of a bizarre and never ending lawsuit where a pedestria ... More >>
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March 24, 2011
Groupon Google Ads Pulls a Bait And Switch, Lawsuit Says
Bait and switchGroupon is being accused of defrauding consumers by purchasing advertisements on Google for services the company did not offer, according to a federal lawsuit filed in San Francisco. A Google search for "San Francisco Tours" on Feb. 24, for example, purportedly returned the followi ... More >>
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May 10, 2011
Google to Launch Cloud-Based Music Service Today, Major Labels Not Included
The Google I/O Conference is in S.F. The confab's keynote speech is scheduled for this morning. And Google execs say today's the day that the Internet search giant is planning to unveil its long-awaited cloud-based music service -- without any licensing deals from the major labels. Music Be ... More >>
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May 10, 2011
Google Launches Bummer of a Cloud-Based Music Service -- Blame the Big Labels
GoogleUpload your music to the cloud, and play it on all your devices. It's on. It's live. And, for a little while, anyway, it's free: Go here to request an invitation to Google's cloud music service, released today under the entirely unthrilling name Music Beta. So what's it do? We ran thro ... More >>
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May 12, 2011
Facebook Hires PR Firm to Plant Negative Stories About Google
Modern day fight It's no secret that Google has been feeling a bit insecure lately, plotting to start its own social-networking system to fend off the threat of Facebook. But the growing tech-rivalry has now hit a new low. Recently, a top public relations firm, Burson-Marsteller, was reportedly h ... More >>
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May 17, 2011
Why Facebook's 'Whisper Campaign' Against Google Isn't Okay
I'm a big fan of Jack Shafer, Slate's media columnist. But his libertarian worldview sometimes tends to make him go overboard with his "oh, what's the big deal" shtick. That's the case -- somewhat -- with his latest column, wherein he wonders why people are so shocked that Facebook hired ... More >>
Music
May 18, 2011
Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music
I'm a big fan of Jack Shafer, Slate's media columnist. But his libertarian worldview sometimes tends to make him go overboard with his "oh, what's the big deal" shtick. That's the case -- somewhat -- with his latest column, wherein he wonders why people are so shocked that Facebook hired ... More >>
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June 8, 2011
Google Maps Now Tracks BART in Real-Time
GoogleBART riders, kneel before GoogleNo need to rush out the door to catch that next BART train. We all know it will probably be late anyway. But to temper your anger over this often frustrating transit system, Google has rolled out its real-time tracking system for public transportation that's ... More >>
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June 21, 2011
Google Doodle Just Isn't Gay Enough
This looks gay to us.Even if we aren't the gayest city in America anymore, LGBT people everywhere still have high expectations of us when it comes to displaying our gayness. Perhaps that's why Google's genuine effort to celebrate the month of Gay Pride with its rainbow Google doodle just isn' ... More >>
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June 29, 2011
Google Made It Easy for Anyone to Stalk You
There are some things Google should not knowWhen it comes to privacy, it's usually Facebook's amorphous policies that have people riled up -- you know the ones who are always frantically checking to make sure strangers can't see those damning photos that have no business being online in the first ... More >>
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June 30, 2011
Google Takes on Facebook, But Only a Few Can Actually Use It
On Tuesday, Google launched a new social networking project, Google , which may bring some serious competition to Facebook. At first, the company only invited an select posse of tech insiders to test it out, but then on Wednesday users were allowed to invite any of their friends. As the exclusive ... More >>
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August 9, 2011
How Google Ended the 'Browser Wars'
Today is the 16th anniversary of Netscape's initial public offering. It occurs to me that many of you might be only vaguely aware of Netscape, and of what it meant to us in the mid-'90s. That's because many of you were toddlers, or perhaps not even born yet. That's depressing and mindblowing ... More >>
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August 16, 2011
Google Thumbs Nose at Antitrust Regulators
You can't say Google doesn't have balls. Despite increasingly heavy antitrust scrutiny by the federal government, the Internet behemoth is charging ahead with a deal that brings all kinds of potential for cornering a market. It will pay $12.5 billion for Motorola Mobility, a leading maker of hand ... More >>
Music
August 24, 2011
Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music
You can't say Google doesn't have balls. Despite increasingly heavy antitrust scrutiny by the federal government, the Internet behemoth is charging ahead with a deal that brings all kinds of potential for cornering a market. It will pay $12.5 billion for Motorola Mobility, a leading maker of hand ... More >>
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October 18, 2011
What Exactly Is a Tech Company?
Fast Company has published what might be the best, clearest look at the how the contours of the tech landscape are shaping themselves, and how that landscape has come to be dominated by four companies. I was alerted to the article via a tweet by Chronicle tech reporter Casey Newton who characte ... More >>
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December 5, 2011
San Franciscans Are Not Googling "the N-Word"
Hey Barry! Guess what my constituents haven't been Googling!In 2008, Barack Obama was the rising tide that buoyed all San Francisco ships -- at least the ones that floated a bit to the left. A massive turnout for "Hope" and "Change" -- 84 percent of a swollen turnout voted for Obama -- also led t ... More >>
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January 31, 2012
Obama Ignores Medical Marijuana During Google Hangout
Some other timePresident Barack Obama, again, turned to social media to connect with voters -- and again he used it as another chance to ignore talking pot.You might have noticed that every time President Obama takes to the series of interactive intertubes, the unwashed masses want to talk, not t ... More >>
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January 31, 2012
Sorry, Twitter, if You're in the Media Business, You're a Media Company
Given how Silicon Valley moguls flee from the term "media company," you'd almost think it was as bad as "child-porn merchant." But whether they like it or not, companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter are media companies. They don't have precisely the same business models as News Corp., Disne ... More >>
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