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		<title>Another Video Paints Google and Eric Schmidt as Creepy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 20:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Crum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>If you have a beef with Google's actions, the trendy thing to do these days appears to be making a video about it, and using Eric Schmidt quotes and likenesses, making them as creepy as possible.&#160; <br />
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The latest such video comes from <a href="http://www.fairsearch.org/">FairSearch.org</a>. This is an organization that refers to itself as, &#34;a group of businesses united in support of a healthy Internet future, where greater consumer choice and economic growth are driven by competition, transparency and innovation in online search.&#34; <br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you have a beef with Google&#8217;s actions, the trendy thing to do these days appears to be making a video about it, and using Eric Schmidt quotes and likenesses, making them as creepy as possible.&nbsp; </p>
<p>The latest such video comes from <a href="http://www.fairsearch.org/">FairSearch.org</a>. This is an organization that refers to itself as, &quot;a group of businesses united in support of a healthy Internet future, where greater consumer choice and economic growth are driven by competition, transparency and innovation in online search.&quot; </p>
<p>The businesses are a bunch of travel firms, namely TripAdvisor, Travelocity, Kayak, Hotwire, Expedia, SideStep, Sabre Holdings, and Farelogix, that are not happy with Google&#8217;s <a href="http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/06/30/google-reportedly-trying-to-buy-ita-software">pending acquisition of ITA Software</a>, which is currently under review by the Department of Justice.&nbsp; </p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the video explaining the organization&#8217;s position:</p>
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/16378851">Google Buys ITA &#8211; A Travel Story</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user4837840">FairSearch.org</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
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<p>It&#8217;s not the entire travel industry that is against Google&#8217;s acquisition, however. Google lists quotes from Priceline, Orbits, Everbread, Travelport, Virgin Atlantic, and others <a href="http://www.google.com/press/ita/saying.html">here</a>.&nbsp; </p>
<p>&quot;Our reason for making this acquisition is simple: ITA will help us provide better results for our users. When someone searches for &#8216;flights from San Francisco to London,&#8217; we&#8217;d like to provide not just &#8216;ten blue links&#8217; but exact flight times and prices as well &#8212; just as our competitors do today,&quot; Google&#8217;s Andrew Silverman <a href="http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2010/10/giving-users-best-answer-and-competing.html">said last week</a>. &quot;We&#8217;ve already been experimenting with similar results in different areas.&quot;</p>
<div>He went on to dispute claims made by FairSearch.org in a post on the company&#8217;s Public Policy Blog.&nbsp; </p>
<p>In disputing the claim that &quot;instead of buying ITA, Google could just license its data,&quot; he said, &quot;We think we can make more significant innovations and bigger breakthroughs in online flight search for consumers by combining our engineering expertise with ITA&#8217;s than we would by just licensing ITA&#8217;s data service.&quot; </p>
<p>According to FairSearch.org, it&#8217;s &quot;Bob&quot; AKA: the consumer that is worried about the deal. As a consumer, do you agree?</p></div>
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		<title>Google CEO And Obama Get Cracking On Economy</title>
		<link>http://www.webpronews.com/google-ceo-and-obama-get-cracking-on-economy-2008-11</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WebProNews Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Economists and Wall Street types sent two clear messages this week in one simple statement: President-elect Obama needs to get his financial team working on the present crisis ASAP. The underlying message there is, obviously: Bush&#8217;s team is asses over elbows on this, and we can&#8217;t wait until January 20. <br /><img border="0" align="right" style="margin: 4px;" src="http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/article_pics/us-money.jpg" alt="Google CEO And Obama Get Cracking On Economy" title="Google CEO And Obama Get Cracking On Economy" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Economists and Wall Street types sent two clear messages this week in one simple statement: President-elect Obama needs to get his financial team working on the present crisis ASAP. The underlying message there is, obviously: Bush&rsquo;s team is asses over elbows on this, and we can&rsquo;t wait until January 20. <br /><img border="0" align="right" style="margin: 4px;" src="http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/article_pics/us-money.jpg" alt="Google CEO And Obama Get Cracking On Economy" title="Google CEO And Obama Get Cracking On Economy" /><br />Sure enough, as the stock market plunges again upon news of jobless rates&mdash;6.5 percent&mdash;and &ldquo;layoffs&rdquo; become the latest buzzword in Silicon Valley instead of trendy mashed-up neologisms, Obama is meeting today with a 17-member panel dubbed his Economic Transition Team. </p>
<p>Taking his place among an elite braintrust with a combined net worth as startling as the lengths of their economic resumes, Google CEO Eric Schmidt almost seems like a token representative of the tech industry. Still, he&rsquo;s a far cry from the blank stares of Bernanke and the glistening panic-and-bail-out forehead of Paulson.</p>
<p>And why not? He&rsquo;s done pretty well managing Google, and at this point all suggestions&mdash;except for hiring more Bear Sterns masterminds&mdash;for the Fed are welcome. Schmidt&rsquo;s presence on today&rsquo;s panel is interesting in light of a resounding &ldquo;hell no&rdquo; from the Obama campaign trail as to whether he was throwing his hat in the political realm. At the time, people were more inclined to view him as a consideration for Obama&rsquo;s Chief Technical Officer, a position for which Steve Ballmer (not on the panel) and Vint Cerf also have been considered. </p>
<p>The meeting may also be a final audition for Lawrence Summers, the former Treasury Secretary who oversaw the dotcom bust between 1999 and 2001, who&rsquo;s being reconsidered for that position. But Summers is perhaps better known for his graceless exit from Harvard after suggesting girls just can&rsquo;t do math. Presumably a certain level of sexism does not outweigh his renowned brilliance as an economist. </p>
<p>Summers&rsquo; presence on the panel is telling in that the presence of the other lead-contender for Treasury Secretary&mdash;New York Fed chief Tim Geithner&mdash;was not requested (or couldn&#8217;t make it) for this meeting. Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker is there, alongside the teleconferencing Warren Buffet, who apparently had more pressing issues preventing him from attending in person. </p>
<p>Here&rsquo;s the complete list of the 17 people Obama has enlisted to save our economy. </p>
<p>David Bonior (former Congressman) <br />Warren Buffett (Chairman and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway)<br />Roel Campos (former SEC Commissioner) <br />William Daley (JP Morgan Chase; Former Commerce Secretary)<br />William Donaldson (Former SEC Chairman) <br />Roger Ferguson (CEO of TIAA-CREF and former Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve) <br />Jennifer Granholm (Governor of Michigan) <br />Anne Mulcahy (CEO of Xerox) <br />Richard Parsons (Chairman of the Board, Time Warner) <br />Penny Pritzker (CEO, Classic Residence by Hyatt) <br />Robert Reich (University of California, Berkeley; Former Dept of Labor Secretary) <br />Robert Rubin (Chairman, Citigroup; former Treasury Secretary<br />Eric Schmidt (CEO of Google) <br />Lawrence Summers (Harvard University; Managing Director, D.E. Shaw; Former Treasury Secretary) <br />Laura Tyson (Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley; Former Chairman, National Economic Council; Former Chairman, President&rsquo;s Council of Economic Advisors) <br />Antonio Villaraigosa (Mayor of Los Angeles) <br />Paul Volcker (Former Fed Chair) <br />&nbsp;</p>
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