Tag Archives: Google

For All You Know, Facebook Owns Your First-Born Child

The New York Times reports that “despite how much we say we value our privacy — and we do, again and again — we tend to act inconsistently,” which is the Times-nice way of saying stupidly. To half-wit: Letting Down Our Guard … Continue reading

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Google’s Newest Search Results: Sponsored Content

From our State-of-the-Cuisinart Marketing desk The Googletron will not be pwned! From Search Engine Land: As News Publications Experiment With Sponsored Content, Google Says Keep It Out Of Google News News publications having “sponsored content “deals are on the rise, and Google’s apparently … Continue reading

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Contest-Generated Ad Goes Full Circle At NYT

When is a print ad both a story and an advertisement? When the New York Times makes it so! From Wednesday’s Times Business section: On Print’s Turf, Google Wins for Creativity THE winner of a contest to encourage creativity in … Continue reading

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Data-Mining Kids: Internet Players Are Agile, Mobile, And Hostile

That’s what legendary Texas Longhorns coach Darrell Royal said he wanted hisplayers to be – except he pronounced it a-gile, mo-bile, and hos-tile. But that’s what the Federal Trade Commission does not want current kids’ app developers to be in tracking them on tablets and … Continue reading

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Name o’ the Day (Google Spokeswoman Edition)

From a Thursday New York Times piece about Google’s autocomplete feature, which anticipates what you’re searching for online. In a statement, Krisztina Radosavljevic-Szilagyi, a Google spokeswoman, wrote: “The search queries that you see as part of autocomplete are a reflection … Continue reading

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Judge: Google Can’t Pay Blogola Under The Table

It’s not the principle, it’s the principal. Read all about it at the spiffy new Sneak Adtack. (Thanks, Diana & Gabby!)  

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Marina Abramovic Blushathon (The Artist Is Present Edition)

The hardblushing staff has followed performance artist Marina Abramovic over the past few years, so we feel constrained to note the flurry of coverage for the new documentary The Artist Is Present. Representative sample, via the New Yorker. Representative image, via … Continue reading

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Dead Blogging Google Chairman Eric Schmidt’s BU Commencement Address

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt (Google search results here) delivered the 139th Commencement Address at Boston University yesterday, and it can be described in three words: predictable and pedestrian. Schmidt started out with a stumbling reference to a Saul Bellow … Continue reading

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Reports Of Facebook’s Death Have Been, Like, Greatly Exaggerated

Begin with Simon Dumenco’s column in this week’s edition of Advertising Age: It’s Curtains for Google! And Facebook! And Tumblr! And … The tech-startup sky is falling! The tech-incumbent sky is falling! The entire tech sky is falling! No, seriously, I’m pretty … Continue reading

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Online Track ADtack!

You have no idea how much you’re being stalked on the Internet. But the Atlantic does. From Alexis Madrigal’s piece in the Atlantic’s February edition: I’m Being Followed: How Google—and 104 Other Companies—Are Tracking Me on the Web This morning, if you … Continue reading

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