Posted on 10/25/2005 10:42:08 AM PDT by JZelle
This story isn't over.
Oh, sure, the predictable part is over: Google has apparently lifted its threatened yearlong boycott of all CNET news reporters after little more than two months, as Google CEO Eric Schmidt granted an interview last week to CNET News.com reporter Elinor Mills. She is the same writer who triggered the ruckus by Googling Schmidt and publishing the results - including Schmidt's approximate net worth, his recent sales of Google stock and a link to a document that included the executive's home address - to help illustrate a story about Google-related privacy issues. Google's public relations department told CNET the tactic was way out of bounds - an opinion shared by few others inside or outside the news business.
(Excerpt) Read more at networkworld.com ...
I meant to credit Network World, sorry!
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