Google Snubs Tech News Outlet CNET!

Dashken · 9th Aug 2005, 03:23 PM

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SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. is refusing to speak with reporters at CNET's online news site after it ran a story that used Google's chief executive to illustrate how easily the company's search engine finds personal information.

Google told News.com, the online tech news service of CNET Networks Inc., last week that it would not speak to any of its reporters for a year, according to News.com's editor.

Google was angered by a story last month that focused on potential threats the search engine leader's product poses to personal privacy, said Jai Singh, the News.com editor-in-chief.

To demonstrate the point, writer Elinor Mills googled CEO Eric E. Schmidt.

In her story, Mills included a link to Schmidt's home address, his net worth of $1.5 billion and noted that he has attended the Burning Man art festival and is an amateur pilot. Mills said she spent 30 minutes on Google to obtain the information.

"We didn't go out and break into any databases to get this information," Singh said. "This is all publicly available information."

A Google spokesman declined to speak with The Associated Press about the story.

The crux of Mills' story was about the vast amounts of information Google collects that is unavailable to the public. For example, Google software scans user e-mails to learn what kind of advertising might appeal to the user.

Mills wrote in her story that "hackers, zealous government investigators, or even a Google insider who falls short of the company's ethics standards could abuse that information."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050808/...te/google_cnet

Adrian Wong · 9th Aug 2005, 07:23 PM

Wow.. Like that also can.

Like a sulking child!

I don't friend you anymore.

PsYkHoTiK · 9th Aug 2005, 09:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Chai

Dun friend u....

Max_87 · 9th Aug 2005, 10:48 PM

"Dun friend u...." - Uncle Chai's trademark

SAMSAMHA · 9th Aug 2005, 11:11 PM

I don't think you can blame google that much. it just to show how powerful it's search engine is. So anyone else did a search of their own information

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SAMSAMHA Super Active Join Date: 13 Oct 2004 Posts: 2,356 Reputation: 197 Rep Power: 9	I don't think you can blame google that much. it just to show how powerful it's search engine is. So anyone else did a search of their own information>