...if it doesn't already.
Here were the top stories in my inbox today:
NBC, Google hook up in ad deal
Google So Excited About Satellites, It's Launching 16 More
Top Lawyer Is Selected As U.S. Mulls Google Suit
Google, Google Everywhere – Even In The Air?
I subsrice to a few tech newsletters and try to keep up with the world. Today, out of the 10 stories in my inbox google occpied 6 of them. *ahem* the internet is big how is one entity maintaining over half of the online buzz...
On another, but still very relevent, note Google, in the midst of creating an ad empire with Yahoo!, will be launching chrome- a new web browser, similar to safari. This will inevitably spell the end for Mozilla Fire Fox as word the Internet Explorer will be discontinued. Here is section 11 of Google's Chrome contractual terms of service giving Google
“a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.”
That seems pretty extreme for a browser, doesn’t it?
Update: after a big fuss on the internet the terms have changed to: 11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.
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One search engine to rule them all, one algorithm to find them, one Google to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them. In my previous post I have expressed my concerns about Google taking over the world. Well, this just in today:
Google search finds seafaring solution
Google may take its battle for global domination to the high seas with the launch of its own “computer navy”.
The company is considering deploying the supercomputers necessary to operate its internet search engines on barges anchored up to seven miles (11km) offshore.
The “water-based data centres” would use wave energy to power and cool their computers, reducing Google’s costs. Their offshore status would also mean the company would no longer have to pay property taxes on its data centres, which are sited across the world, including in Britain.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article4753389.ece
Isn't it a famed military strategy that those who rule the sea rule the world?
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