Google’s Convergence Re-visited

Googled to know what's in the news, about: "We're changing our privacy policy.""This stuff matters,"
says a news story: "Google announced this week it intends to consolidate privacy policies and combine all of the user data it has harvested into one profile. This means that data from Gmail users would be combined with that gathered from their searches on YouTube, Maps, Google+, Picassa, Chrome and any of Google's other services..." continue reading @  Asia Times Online



And, thus spake a Blog author @ London Review of Books:

"...Technology companies used to emulate IBM – Microsoft emulated IBM and Google emulated Microsoft – by commoditising the complement: IBM made it cheap and easy to get parts to plug into your computer, allowing it to sell more computers; Microsoft made it cheap and easy to buy computers, allowing it to sell more software; Google made it free and easy to do anything on the internet, allowing it to sell more ads. (Apple made it cheap and easy to get music online, which led to everyone buying iPods, and to 30 per cent of all music sales going through Apple.)" continue reading : 

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Daniel Soar 31 January 2012

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• The Price We Pay for Google Peter Olsthoorn
• What Every Librarian Should Know about Electronic Privacy Jeannette A. Woodward
• Google Bomb: The Untold Story of the $11.3M Verdict That Changed the Way We Use the Internet Sue Scheff
• The Googlization of Everything: (And Why We Should Worry) Siva Vaidhyanathan
• The Social Media Mind: How social media is changing business, politics and science and helps create a new world order. David Amerland
• The Age of the Platform: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Have Redefined Business Phil Simon
• Google and the Law: Empirical Approaches to Legal Aspects of Knowledge-Economy Business Models (Information Technology and Law Series)
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• Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom
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• Google: It's in your DNA
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• Convergence of Internet search and social networks
  
• Future of SEO: Change, Convergence, Collaboration
• millionshort.com [Million Short is an experimental web search engine (really, more of a discovery engine) that allows you to REMOVE the top million (or top 100k, 10k, 1k, 100) sites from the results set. We thought it might be somewhat interesting to see what we'd find if we just removed an entire slice of the web.]
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• Experts: Trust in Google is 'funny' and 'strange' ITWorld Canada
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• The Google Cookie That Seems to Come Out of Nowhere Wall Street Journal
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• Google Allows 'Do-Not-Track' Browser Button
  
• BEWARE! Google is spying on all you do on the NET
  
• Googlization of Libraries: Debunking the Internet Godzilla Myth
  The Second Follett Lecture, Graduate School of Library and Information Science,
  Dominican University, 15 February 2006, Edward J. Valauskas -- reproduced in World Libraries Volume 19, Numbers 1 & 2, February 2012
  
  
• Google to Consolidate Data March 1: 5 Steps to Protect Your Privacy Huffington Post
  ‎EXTRACT:
  

  1. Don't sign into Google
  2. Use your browser's "private" or "incognito" mode
  3. Clear your Google history
  4. Review your Google dashboard
  5. Clear your browser's history