Google Friday: Big G Round-up
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Written By Reprise Media | August 4, 2006 | Share This
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We will make absolutely no jokes about bringing you “just the facts.” Nor will we claim to have changed names “to protect the innocent.” We hope our restraint is appreciated. Now…here’s the Google news we dredged up in our dragnet:
Out of Time, exec joins Google AdAge says that Google’s just tapped the former president of Time magazine to be their new head of ad sales in New York. Eileen Naughton, a 15-year Time, Inc. employee, was once in charge of that company’s interactive undertakings, and later the Time website. She’ll start at Google in a few months, having left Time in December.
Now you tell us In a deal that’s been on for two months, but only made public Wednesday, the Associated Press announced that Google has agreed to compensate them on a pay-per-click basis for using news stories and photographs in Google News. That’s got to irk Agence France Presse, who sued Google last year over copyright infringement for including fragments of their stories in Google News search results. Says News.com, the AFP hopes the Google-AP deal will bolster their legal arguments (although Techdirt doesn’t think so).
Cali-come-lately The University of California, whose 100 libraries boast 34 million books (making it “collectively the largest academic research library in the world”), might be interested in jumping on the Google Books Library Project bandwagon. According to the LA Times (free reg. req’d), a UC spokesperson emphasized the need to preserve texts from natural disasters, and the fact that Google would subsidize the scanning sweetens the deal. UC regents would have to approve, though, and the project, controversial due to copyright issues, may not get a passing grade.
Once, twice… …three firms a tie-up (oy). Google, Mozilla and RealNetworks are in cahoots to help co-distribute each others’ software, says Macworld. According to the terms of the multi-year partnership, users who download RealPlayer, Rhapsody, and RealArcade will be given the option to download and install Mozilla’s Firefox browser and Google’s toolbar application. RealNetworks says it “distributes more than 2 million pieces of software a day,” which could make for lots of new toolbar enthusiasts.
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