On Friday, the NY Times reported that the Google engineer struck by a falling tree branch in Central Park was suing the city and Central Park Conservancy for negligence. Now, it turns out the still-hospitalized Sasha Blair-Goldensohn's lawsuit is worth $120 million.
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While Rupert Murdoch sits alone in his News Corp. castle with shoes three sizes too small, demanding that none of his publication's content show up in a Google News search results, not everyone thinks that news aggregators will be the end of journalism as [...]
I am happy to say that I had a little to do with a lot of this coverage of Senator Antoine Thompson. I was there at his fundraiser just to see if he a fool enough to show up. WHY, when this state is in such a mess fiscally would [...]
Yesterday, Google announced that it would allow news publishers to limit the number of free articles readers access via Google's search, a move the AP calls "a concession to an increasingly disgruntled media industry trying to find ways to get users to pay for" [...]
Looks like Rupert Murdoch is getting some traction in his quest to keep "kleptomaniacs" like you and us from getting his content for free. Google senior Business Product Manager Josh Cohen says at...
Continue reading "Murdoch Forces Google to Change "First Click" to "First 5 Clicks"" [...]
Website Ride the City debuted in 2008, integrating Google maps with data about ideal cycling routes. The site enables users to map a bike ride along as many bike paths as possible, or take their chances with the "fastest," most direct route. Tomorrow the site will launch a new [...]
Mediabistro.com already brings you exclusive news and interviews, but we thought we could do better. So in our new weekly video series, Media Beat, we'll speak with the biggest names in media for an intimate sit-down about their careers and the latest happenings in the business.
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Women are more likely to be chatting it up on Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites you've probably never heard of, like "Bebo." According to data taken from Google's U.S. Ad Planner, a site that tracks popular Web sites' traffic, 84 percent (or 16 out of 19) [...]
The big news right before Thanksgiving turned us all into sleepy zombies was Rupert Murdoch's plans to take all his News Corp. and Dow Jones business off of Google's search engines, which were stealing all his lucky charms content.
Murdoch was so angry [...]
Before weblogs there were chatrooms, instant messaging and forums. Dialog, interaction in real time caught netizens' fancy. Circa the mid-2000's blogging really got cranking. I'm talking about the days when Technorati, not Google was driving traffic to blogs. The times when Xiaxue's star was ascending... 
• Google-owned blog Hot Girls removed their racist picture of Michelle Obama, though it still shows up in a Google search. -WebNewser
• You can now buy books you read about in The Washington Post with their new direct link system to Amazon.com -[...]
Well, at last, after all the "Why Won't My Parakeet Eat My Diarrhea" nonsense, we're seeing a Google Trend "On Fire" item that speaks well of the readership: "charles i insulted by cromwell s sold...
Continue reading "Latest Google Trend Surprisingly Cultural" >The latest Google Bomb is apparently this awful Photoshop of Michelle Obama, which comes up first when you look for her on Google Images. Google, being devoted to free exchange of ideas (void in C...
Continue reading "Google Apologizes for Michelle Obama Image Bomb" > [...]
Other media companies are looking to follow the lead of Rupert Murdoch-owned News Corp., which has been in talks with Microsoft to feature its content exclusively on its Bing search engine, thus removing links to its news stories from Google.
Do you have any idea who Denise Milani is? Now you will!
Sure, Rupert Murdoch wants people to pay for his content, but now he's definitely considering upping the ante. From the Media Decoder: "News Corporation...has engaged in early stage discussions with Microsoft about a pact to get paid from Microsoft to remove its news content" [...]
