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Duck Duck Go: The Lawful Good of Search Engines

By C.G. | Published: January 24, 2012

One of the Apple bloggers I read mentioned Duck Duck Go the other day but I can’t remember who (sorry). At the time it seemed like a really simple search engine but since I couldn’t get it to work with Safari, it wasn’t something I was going to switch to permanently. But then Ben Brooks [...]

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Google’s World

By C.G. | Published: March 19, 2011

Alejo Malia created illustrations representing what life were like if Google Maps objects existed in real life. I’d love to have prints of these framed. Google’s World – Alejo Malia via Apartment Therapy

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Rapid End-Of-Lifing & The Commoditization of Android

By C.G. | Published: January 26, 2011

Ben Brooks commenting on Fraser Speirs’ thoughts of Android’s rapid end-of-life problem: The bottom line is this: Android has yet to prove that they will not make your device obsolete in six months time by not getting you the updates that you need/want. This makes Android a commodity; a low priced common good that’s prevalent [...]

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Turn The (Larry) Page?

By C.G. | Published: January 21, 2011

Lots of tech news this week. One of the most recent bits of gossip is Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, is “stepping up” to be Executive Chairman and handing the CEO role over to one of the two founders, Larry Page. Everyone seems to be focused on why Schmidt decided to vacate the CEO title. Ken [...]

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Thoughts on Google and vb.ly

By C.G. | Published: October 7, 2010

Reports of Libya taking control of a the domain vb.ly, millions of web users suddenly wondered if their favorite URL shortener, Bit.ly would ultimately be taken over, too. The owner of vb.ly was told that if his site was more like Bit.ly (and not dedicated to adult material), it wouldn’t have been shut down. Bit.ly [...]

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