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Knol Recieving A lot of Criticism

Anil Dash, blogger and Six Apart employee, argues that Google has fundamental problems with creating good editing tools because they can’t really put themselves in the mind of the end user.  

Ballmer Gets Earful From Vista Mom

In my years of retail work, I’ve encountered tough guys, wicked old ladies, and thousands of screaming children.  Yet the scariest creatures are often the mothers of those children, and Steve Ballmer may have seen a hint of that when one woman confronted him over Windows Vista.

Google Reaches $2000 or TechCrunch Sells for $100M?

While you were working, an interesting exchange happened over the blogosphere. It seems TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington and Silicon Alley Insider’s Henry Blodget are having a war of words. You might ask what this has to do with internet marketing, but I think you’ll find the exchange of interest. First up, Blodget put up his thoughts on Google’s share price hitting $2000, giving it a market cap of $750+ billion.

ABC: Amanda's Been Canned

Ex-Rocketboom host Amanda Congdon won't have her contract renewed with ABC, after a year of working with the network.

Google's DoubleClick Buy Draws EU Criticism

The latest concerns come from the European Consumers' Organization (BEUC), which found plenty of reason to worry about DoubleClick and Google merging their consumer databases and mining them.

O'Reilly Turns Criticism Into Civil Discourse

After the uproar caused by his proposed code of conduct for bloggers, Tim O'Reilly could have let the subject drop into the deep waters of blogospheric controversy, only to be remembered as a cautionary tale, a footnote to the history of the Web.

Google Censors China Olympics Criticism

The motto of next year’s Olympic games in China is “one world, one dream.” Online, the world is actually split up into several countries, each with their own limited view, made possible through national censorship of the web.

Resurrect Jeeves, Ask How Not To Slam Google

Here's the thing about boldness: you'd better have the chops to back it up. While Ask.com's anti-Google guerrilla marketing campaign in London's Underground was outed in record time, indexing of its own campaign site was even close to a record. Background Ads appearing in the Tube encouraged bystanders to fight Google's "information monopoly."

Give Constructive Criticism Constructively

Last week I read an article that blasted Rand for an article he wrote pointing out the differences between expert and novice SEOs. While I agree with everything written in that article, I think the author could, and should, have taken a better approach.

YouTube Censors Religion Criticism?

Outspoken atheist Nick Gisburne claims that the staff of Google-owned YouTube deleted his account simply because he posted a selection of Quran quotations, among other religious criticism. In a video he released on February 8th, he states: