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Re:With Google, There Will Be Bad Blood by MikeCapone on Sunday August 07, 2011 @02:23AM (#2855979)
Am I the only one feeling like some people are trying way too hard to influence others on how they perceive Google? It seems to all have happened at the same time too. I don't have any proof, but it does smell a bit like an astroturf campaign (I'm not referring to this TC article, but mostly to comments I've seen here and elsewhere).
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Re:With Google, There Will Be Bad Blood by sek on Sunday August 07, 2011 @07:07AM (#2856395)
You are right, it gets suspiciously much these days.

In Germany, some days ago, came out that Microsoft paid for an Anti-Google article in a Newspaper. I can search for a link (in German) if somebody wants proof.

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Re:With Google, There Will Be Bad Blood by yanw on Sunday August 07, 2011 @07:38AM (#2856426)
Yes please.
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Re:With Google, There Will Be Bad Blood by sek on Sunday August 07, 2011 @08:04AM (#2856462)
The article itself: http://www.fr-online.de/politik/meinung/der-mensch-denkt--go...

Blog entry about this: http://blog.die-linke.de/digitalelinke/anti-google-pr-in-der...

Follow up in a startup blog: http://netzwertig.com/2011/08/05/mangelnde-transparenz-uber-...

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Re:With Google, There Will Be Bad Blood by iamelgringo on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @12:52AM (#2862957)
My opinions are my own.

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BizSpark sponsors Hackers & Founders, and they've been great to work with, but their sponsorships just cover costs of events for Hackers & Founders.

</full disclosure>

I am a believer in "If you don't pay for the product, you are the product", however. I'm not a fan of Facebook for many of the same reasons.

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Re:With Google, There Will Be Bad Blood by yuhong on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @12:32AM (#2866782)
Yea, I hope someone investigates the source of some of the comments.
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