When you decide your company’s motto is “don’t be evil,” you invite criticism when you fall even a little short. And I know Peoria is trying to kiss Google’s butt in order to lure Google fiber Internet system.
So, I’m going to applaud Google for, apparently, telling the communist bastards who run China that they...
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Kudos to John Sharp of the Peoria Journal Star for asking questions about the effect that installing Google’s high-speed fiber network might have in Peoria. Some of the answers seems to be conflicting, and don’t seem to be all that firm. Peorian’s support would be stronger, if some of the reporting took on questions...
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From a press release:
Date: March 10, 2010
Released by: Alma Brown, Communications Manager
Subject: G O O G L E at the IHSA Tournament
In our ongoing quest to encourage Google to choose Peoria as its test market, we will be shooting a video prior to the 6:30 pm IHSA game tomorrow night. Come...
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From the Peoria Journal Star, news that the city is ga-ga over Google’s search for a test city for its high-speed Internet service:
“We are putting together an application,” said Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis. “Access to high-speed data is the most important infrastructure in the 21st century. Our research indicates there are over 1,200...
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I’ve scoffed at Google’s claim that it’s motto is “don’t be evil.” I’m scoffing a bit less now:
We launched Google.cn in January 2006 in the belief that the benefits of increased access to information for people in China and a more open Internet outweighed our discomfort in agreeing to censor some results. At the...
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It’s been three months. I couldn’t resist the urge any longer.
I changed my theme again. As readers have no doubt noticed.
I did it to accommodate a new ad scheme.
I’m now selling ads without any help from third-party agents like Project Wonderful*, Blogads or Google AdSense. I was getting most of my revenue from people...
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I’ve been using Google Reader for the simple reason that it’s, well, a simple and easy way to keep track of the sites I need to keep track of. I tend to use multiple computers at multiple locations, so a Web-based RSS aggregator is very handy indeed.
But I’ll be abandoning Google Reader as soon...
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Consider, please, these paragraphs from the Wall Street Journal:
But time may be running out. Now, for the first time, pure-play Web companies have the biggest share of the local online-ad market. In 2007, Internet companies had a 43.7% share of the $8.5 billion local online-ad market, while newspaper companies had a 33.4% share, according...
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I just now received this in my inbox:
It has come to our attention that invalid clicks have been generated on your Google ads, posing a financial risk to our AdWords advertisers. Please note that any activity that may artificially inflate an advertiser’s costs or a publisher’s earnings is strictly prohibited by our program policies.
We...
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In an industry where Yahoo and Google make deals with communist China that help keep people enslaved, its refreshing to see a guy — who has yet to make his first million — say “no” to China.
WordPress could have regained their Chinese market by launching a specialized sister site for China that censored content...
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I’m a big fan of this new search engine, Mahalo, which beats the heck out of Google when it comes to actually relevant results. A recent New York Times article on Mahalo is sure to generate some business there way, too:
All of the links listed in Mahalo send the user to Web pages that...
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Well, not really.
Google has a beta version of a blog search engine. I did a search and this is what I found:
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Mahkno speculates on Peoria’s changes of being part of free wireless internet service that Google is rumored to be planning.
Rest assured that if anyone has a good Internet-related idea, it will happen at least five years after everyone else has worked the bugs out.
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Billy Dennis is a former reporter and editor at small daily and weekly newspapers in Illinois and Missouri. He comments on media, news and politics. He also owns and operates The Blog Peoria Project, which promotes community-based citizen journalism in his hometown, Peoria IL. Call me at (309) 863-5748 and leave a message.
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From a press release:
In our ongoing effort to show Google how it “Plays in Peoria”, we have been asking people to shoot videos saying why Google should come to Peoria, upload it to You Tube and send us the link. We will then post your video on our Google website, www.googleplaysinpeoria.com. It’s not too late [...]
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It takes a lot of balls to file a cock and bull lawsuit like this:
Attorney Sam Zabek said the Frey Corp., the Peoria-based company that owns the building at 1823 W. Lincoln Ave., where Shop-Rite Supermarket is currently operating, maintains the city should not have revoked the “site approval” for the address without a proper [...]
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Today’s strip: Nada.
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