Aqute Intelligence: Google

Google news stories: December 30, 2009

• Google Android Press Conference January 5th! Also here, here, here, here.
• Google and Multivac.
• Google Plasters Chrome Ad On Its Home Page.
• Google to digitise Danish library.
• 35 Google open-source projects that you probably don't know.
• 10 Mistakes Google Is Making with Chrome OS.
• 150,000 Android Apps Predicted By End Of 2010.
• 5 Microsoft and Google battlegrounds in 2009.
• Our Google Government. Also here, here, here.
• Google is giving $20 million to charity for Christmas.
• Android 2.0 Coming to T-Mobile G1.
• App Pushes iPhone, Android Into Enterprise.
• As Advertising Evolves Google Talks About Barbie.
• Bestselling Author, Ursula K. Leguin, Resigns from Authors Guild Over Google Issues.
• Can Google's Chrome Banner Change the Course of the Browser Wars?
• Google & Media: Biting the Hand that Feeds You.
• China Author Set To Sue Google Inc. Over Web Book Scan. Also here, here, here.
• Chrome OS likely to be hacker's dream tool, says security firm.
• Consumer Groups Lobby Against Google's Purchase of AdMob. Also here, here.
• Debate Rages On in Microsoft Vs Google Web War.
• Early Holiday Gift For Googlers: $2.3 Billion
• For 2010, Expect Display Ads On The Google Homepage.
• Former Russian 'YouTube' officer to face prosecution.
• Forrester: Google Android smartphones to take 10% of market in 2010.
• Global manufacturers for Android may fuel demand for telecom management.
• Google Devices May Be Just Research.
• Google Doesn't Practice What They Preach For Open Source.
• Google Everything! Too Late, Dude.
• Google Executive Eyes Advert Revolution.
• Google Launches AdWords Professionals Search. Also here.
• Google Linux-based Chrome OS Netbook Specs Leaked? Also here.
• Google Nexus One "Official" Specs Available. Also here, here, here.
• Google Touts Online TV Role, Will Cable Buy It?
• Google: Microsoft 'Like IBM in 1985′.
• Google Still A Distant Second To Baidu in China.
• Google's "Open" Definition: Simply Brilliant Business, but Is It Evil?
• Googles “Gift” To Everyone.
• Google's AdMob move in the spotlight. Also here, here, here.
• IBM CEO Dismisses Idea Of All-Powerful Google.
• Google's Android apps may soon top 150,000.
• How do you get a $4 million second round from Google Ventures at age 21? Also here.
• How Google stole mighty Microsoft's thunder.
• MPs Accuse Google of UK Tax Dodge.
• Sony Ericsson Sponsoring Android Development Contest.
• T-Mobile to Employees: Get Ready for Google Phone.
• Will the Carriers be Android’s Downfall?
• Working conditions in Google-land: Pretty sweet.

Google news stories: December 24, 2009

• "Google Explosion," Indeed!
• Google's 2009 Holiday Gift To Ad Partners: $20 Million To Charity.
• Voice May Join Google’s Enterprise Lineup.
• An Item on Google's Long Shopping List: "Demand-Side Platforms".
• Apple, Amazon And Google's Simple Success.
• Backed By Google Ventures, EnglishCentral Raises $3.5 Million For Video Language Learning. Also here.
• Chrome Ad Campaign Nets Positive Results. Also here, here.
• FTC Steps Up Scrutiny of Google's AdMob Acquisition. Also here.
• Did Yelp's Star Banker George Boutros Just Screw Up The Google Deal? Also here.
• Google Books takes another legal body blow.
• Google Chrome OS goes native (code).
• Google Thinks Like a Small Company.
• Google Wave's Massive Potential for Business Users.
• Google, Apple most admired in Silicon Valley.
• Many Small Acquisitions As Google Assails MS Office. Also here.
• Google Hires Open Web Leader For Social Initiatives.
• Google's Bermuda presence helps Internet giant to trim UK tax bill.
• Noble ideas: Google Australia's engineering director.
• Publisher asks Google, AT&T to unmask network intruder.
• Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner: Marissa Mayer, Google - Creativity Loves Constraint.
• Google 'open' memo betrays deep corporate delusion. Also here, here, here, here.

Google news stories: December 23, 2009

• Yelp's Rejection Of Google Heralds A Massive IPO Boom. Also here, here, here, here, here.
• Will Apple and Microsoft Join Forces To Fight Google?
• Why would Google not pay as little tax as possible? Also here.
• A Very Short List: Publishers That Have Actually Told Google to Take a Hike.
• Can Google's weight give momentum to QR codes?
• Case Study: How Google Hosts & Funds A Copyright-Infringing Web Site.
• Chief Economist of Google Invents a Search Tool for Advertising.
• Did Google Shut Down TheNexusOne.com?
• Dishwashers, and How Google Eats Its Own Tail.
• Google gets personal.
• Google Sends Signals to Telco Poobahs.
• Google's China Blues.
• Google's creed: 'Open will win'.
• Google's Shopping List Grows Even Longer.
• Inside Google, data drives 'everything'.
• Is the Success of Google's Android a Threat to Free Software?
• Lib Dems criticise Google for avoiding taxes.
• Pacific WebWorks says it is settling Google suit.
• Paper: Google Using Legal And Accounting Tricks To Avoid UK Taxes.
• Twitter profitable in 2009 due to search payday. Also here.
• Twitterfeed No More, Google's Feedburner Can Tweet Your RSS Feed Today.
• Verizon snuffs Google for Microsoft search.
• Why Google's Shopping Spree Should Worry Investors.

Google employees in the news: December 14-December 20, 2009

• Annie Baxter, Corporate Communications, Australia
• Michele Covell, Vision Research
• Steve Olechowski, Product Manager, FeedBurner
• Mike LeBeau, Senior Software Engineer, Search
• John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst, Zurich
• Genoveva Descalzo, Consumer Operations Strategist, Maps, Latin America
• Wayne Lin, Product Manager, Ad Planner
• Brian Kuhn, Analytics
• Justin Baird, Innovationist, Australia
• Mia Quagliarello, Community Manager, YouTube
• Toby Reyelts, Engineer, App Engine
• Cyrus Mistry, Product Manager, Enterprise
• Alessio Cimmino, Corporate Communications & Public Affairs Manager, Italy
• Arvind Jain, Director, Faster Web, Webmaster Tools
• Yushi Jing, Research
• Sameer Samat, Product Management Director, Product Search
• Scott Crosby, Software Manager, Urchin
• Tamara Micner, Canada
• Hartmut Neven, Technical Lead Manager, Image Recognition
• Javier Tordable, Software Engineer, Webmaster Trends
• Karolina Slipko, Account Associate, Poland
• Sadia Harper, Howto & Style Manager, YouTube
• Anita Barci, Product Marketing Manager, Checkout
• Ajith Kumar, Program Manager, Map Maker, India
• Ryan Hayward, Product Marketing Manager, GIS Products
• Gabe Cohen, Apps Education Edition
• Mario Queiroz, VP, Product Management
• Karin Tuxen-Bettman, Earth Outreach
• Neha Singh, Engineer, News
• David Kim, Product Marketing Manager, GIS Products
• Manish Patel, SketchUp
• Josh Cohen, Senior Business Product Manager, News
• Rajen Sheth, Senior Product Manager, apps
• Jonathan Simon, Analyst, Webmaster Trends
• Amit Singhal, Fellow
• James Therrien, GIS Products
• Matt Holden, Associate Product Manager, GIS Products
• Bruno Bowden, GIS Products
• Christian Frueh, 3D Modeling
• John Grabowski, Software Engineer, Chrome
• Neha Singh, Software Engineer, News
• Eric Kolb, Strategist, GIS Products
• Michael Burge, Software Engineer, GIS Products
• Diego Nogueira, Local Search
• Erik Kay, Software Engineer, Chrome
• John Mcateer, Managing Director, Sales, US
• Christine Tsai, Web Elements
• David Wurtz, Product Manager, TV Ads
• Jeff Bartelma, Senior Product Manager, Product Search
• Hunter Walk, Director of Product Management, YouTube
• Serena Satyasai, Apps
• Piotr Zalewski, Associate Account Strategist, Poland
• Zach Yeskel, Product Marketing Manager, Picasa
• Henry Rowley, Research
• Agustina Dates, Books Online
• Michele Flannery, Music Manager, YouTube
• Scott Rubin, Senior Manager, Public Policy Communications
• Ravi Yadavilli, Geo Content Operations,
• Lucas Ballard, Anti-Malware
• Rick Klau, Blogger
• Mike Giardina, Strategist, Checkout
• Kaisuke Nakajima, Japan
• Balazs Racz, Engineer, Apps
• Jayant Madhavan, Fusion Tables
• Flavio Lerda, Engineer, Mobile
• Daniela Carnielli, AdSense, Brazil
• Bob Boorstin, Public Policy Director, Australia
• Pavel Feldman, Software Engineer, Chrome
• Mark Day, Marketing Programs Manager, YouTube
• Andrew Bowers, Product Manager, Web Toolkit
• Jason Holt, Software Engineer, GIS Products
• Chris Kelly, Developer Marketing, Apps
• Obadiah Greenberg, Strategic Partner Manager, YouTube
• Anno Langen, Fusion Tables
• Randy Wilson, GIS Products
• Charles Baron, Google.org
• Katharina Friedrich, Product Marketing Manager, iGoogle
• Andy McEwan, Engineer, Mobile
• Nick Mihailovski, Analytics API
• Wes Carr, Software Engineer, Docs
• Jacqueline Rajuai, Geo Specialist, Kenya
• Paneendra Ba, Translator Toolkit
• Darren Lewis, Software Engineer, Gmail
• Peng Ying, Engineer, Developer Programs
• Susanna Leng, Engineer, Picasa
• Harvey Jones, Software Engineer, User Interface
• Katrina Kurnit, AdWords
• Chang Kim, Product Manager, Blogger
• Sara Pollack, Entertainment Marketing Manager, YouTube
• Jenny Ross, Software Engineer, Gmail
• David King, Senior Product Manager, YouTube
• Sreeram Ramachandran, Software Engineer, Faster Web, Webmaster Tools
• Bruce Polderman, Product Manager, SketchUp
• Jaroslav Bengl, Product Manager, GIS Products, Czech Republic
• Siddharth Naidu, Orkut, India
• Matt Manolides, Senior Geo Data Strategist
• Nick Fey, User Experience Designer, Mobile
• Andrew McCarthy, Local Search
• Tanya Keen, Earth Outreach
• Tyler Odean, Product Manager, iGoogle
• Kenzo Fong Hing, GIS Products, UK
• Josh Danziger, Software Engineer, Docs
• Adel Saoud, Blogger
• Steve Dapkus, SketchUp
• Joerg Heilig, Engineering Director, Display Ads
• Eric Koleda, AdWords API
• Rebecca Moore, Engineering Manager, Google.org
• Alex Petcherski, Software Engineer, Search
• Shimrit Ben-Yair, Product Manager, Enterprise
• Bruce Johnson, Web Toolkit
• Michael Siliski, Product Manager, Mobile
• Hanah Kim, University Programs

Google news stories: December 20, 2009

• Google may buy Yelp. Also here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here.
• Audi A8: World's First Google Earth-Enabled In-Car Nav System. Also here, here, here.
• Google Could Buy Real Estate Site Trulia. Also here.
• Google To Acquire DocVerse For $25 Million. Also here.
• A Chrome OS Netbook by Google? Also here, here, here, here.
• Google Relaunching Google Answers As Google Guru? Also here, here, here.
• Google's Stock-option Reset Coup. Also here.
• French Court Fines Google for Copyright Infringement. Also here, here, here, here, here.
• Android Hits Consumer Radars. Also here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here.
• Will Google Leave Behind Firefox?
• Ambiguity in a Google Job Write Up.
• Can the ‘Google Economy’ Lift Small Towns?
• Google Announces Map Contest: $50K for Adding Schools, Hospitals & More.
• Google Applauds EU-Microsoft 'Browser Ballot' Decision.
• Google Everywhere: As the Search Giant Grows, How Much Is Too Much?
• Google Exec: Saw 'Very Strong Growth' In Display Ad Business.
• Google Experimenting With Browser Login For Chrome OS.
• Google goes all arty to sell Chrome.
• Google Grabs Plaxo’s CTO To “Turbocharge” The Opening Of The Social Web. Also here.
• Google Is Failing More.
• Google Is The New King Of Creep.
• Google Joins the IPSO Alliance.
• Google Makes A Play in Russia With Mail.ru Search Deal.
• Google moving Pittsburgh office to Bakery Square.
• Google pays no tax on £1.6bn in Britain. Also here.
• Google 'to help' online marketing services.
• Google’s Blogger Integrates with Amazon Associates.
• Google's Fast Flip adopted by 55 new publications.
• Google's Italian Job: One Of Three Cases Lost, Possible Jail Sentence. Also here.
• Google's top antitrust defender: 'it's fun'.
• How the record labels spurned the YouTube opportunity.
• On2 and Google Announce Exchange Ratio for On2 Merger.
• Libraries ask for oversight of Google books product.
• Will Mr. Google Rustle the Adobe Cash Cow.

Google employees in the news: November 26-December 13, 2009

• Prem Ramaswami, Public DNS
• Andrew Foster, Product Manager, SketchUp, Australia
• Jennifer Mazzon, Organizer, Maps Community
• Anders Sandholm, Product Manager, Chrome
• Kamil Tavas, AdSense Optimization
• Will Easton, Industry Leader, Retail, Australia
• Vance Vagell, Software Engineer, User Interface
• Brian Rakowski, Product Manager, Chrome
• Brian McClendon, VP Engineering
• Jon Wiley, User Experience Designer
• Jesse Kinkead, Software Engineer, Docs
• Srikanth Belwadi, Orkut, India
• Chris Maxcy, Director, Content Partnerships
• Roshni Malani, Software Engineer, Docs
• Elizabeth Ferdon, AdSense Payments
• Dan Israel, Enterprise
• Thomas Stromberg, Hardware Operations
• Christopher Alberti, Research
• LB Lincoln, Software Engineer, Docs
• Phil Mui, Product Manager, Analytics
• Peter Harbison, Product Marketing Manager, Docs
• Jeffery Martin, Business Product Manager, Earth
• Jack Hebert, Software Engineer, News
• Jamie Davidson, Associate Product Manager, YouTube
• Mayank Gupta, Translator Toolkit
• Emily Williams, AdWords
• Maggie Johnson, Director, Education and University Relations
• Neal Mohan, Vice President, Product Management, Display Ads
• Michael Terrell, Energy Policy Counsel, Google.org
• Ramya Raghavan, Nonprofits Manager, YouTube
• Mike Pinkerton, Software Engineer, Chrome
• Iarla Flynn, Policy, Australia
• Arthur Blume, Software Engineer
• Dr Amy Luers, Senior Manager, Environment, Google.org
• Charles Warren, User Experience Designer, Mobile
• Daniel Rocha, Software Engineer, User Interface
• Maya Moufarek, Regional Marketing Manager
• Manik Gupta, Product Manager, GIS Products, India
• Sree Unnikrishnan, Senior User Experience Designer, GIS Products, India
• Darrell Kuhn, Site Reliability Engineer, Apps
• Anash P. Oommen, AdWords API
• Rebecca Shapley, Fusion Tables
• Chris Zacharias, Engineer, YouTube
• Bob Rose, Engineer, Docs
• Stan Grinberg, AdWords API
• Amanda Surya, YouTube Direct
• Zhengping Zuo, Software Engineer, Apps
• Piyush Prahladka, Software Engineer, Search
• David Smydra, News Online
• Dia Muthana, AdSense
• Shreyas Doshi, Product Manager, AdWords API
• Michiel Bacchiani, Research
• Robin Norvell, Consumer Operations, Mobile
• Liviu Panait, Engineer, Apps
• Andy Palay, Software Engineer, Apps
• Alex Gawley, Product Manager, Local Search Coupons
• Alastair Tse, Software Engineer, Mobile
• Eric Bogs, Engineer, Docs
• Allyson McDuffie, Program Manager, SketchUp for Education
• Jason Toff, Associate Product Marketing Manager, Gmail
• James Whittaker, Product Manager, Chrome OS
• Paolo Petrolini, Blogger
• Simone Nicolo, SketchUp, Italy
• Leah Spalding, Manager, Market Insights
• Julie Sohn, Content Partnerships, GIS products
• Jeremy Milo, Marketing Manager, Apps
• Dominik Marcinski, Software Engineer, Gmail
• Sven Naumann, Search Quality, Germany
• Laura Melahn, Product Marketing Manager, GIS Products
• Mike Schuster, Research
• Nicolas Garnier, Engineer, Developer Programs
• Vic Gundotra, Vice President, Engineering
• Vijay Bangaru, Product Manager, Docs
• Aaron Boodman, Software Engineer, Chrome
• Chris Dizon, SketchUp
• Jacquelline Fuller, Advocacy Director, Google.org

Google news stories: December 17, 2009

• YouTube Paid Video Could Come "In the Not Too Distant Future". Also here, here, here, here, here.
• YouTube Looking to Replace Your Cable Company?
• YouTube leads Google charge in display ad market.
• Young people negotiate Copenhagen deal using Google Wave.
• Will the New Google Chrome TV Ads Convince You to Dump Firefox or IE? Also here.
• Google Continues Offline Ad Campaigns For Chrome In The Netherlands.
• Why Google doesn’t want your money.
• Who Was Marissa Mayer Wearing At Her Wedding? Also here.
• The Google Phone..Disruption In The Wireless Industry Ahead. Also here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here.
• The difference between Google and Nokia.
• Telegraph, Independent and Express join Google's news experiment Fast Flip. Also here.
• Sky pulls out of YouTube talks with Google. Also here, here.
• Google’s Chrome is racing Apple’s Safari for the third spot. Also here, here.
• Google Investing For Growth In Display Ads.
• Google Goggles: Will AR Finally Go Mainstream?
• Google Claims its URL Shortening Service is More Secure.
• If you can’t kill it, bill it: German city charges Google Street View by the kilometre.
• Are Google’s Local Barcode Stickers Their Backdoor Check-Ins?
• Google's Personalized Results: The "New Normal" That Deserves Extraordinary Attention.
• Google’s Vint Cerf Has Something to Say About Mobile Access to the Internet.
• Google Books Expects Direct Sales By Mid-Year.
• Google Tried to Buy Lala: Lost to Apple.
• Google says ad blockers will save online ads.
• Google Positions Itself as the Hub of Online Advertising.
• Google Makes A Play in Russia With Mail.ru Search Deal.
• Google leaps on EU ruling - rushes What Browser to the limelight.
• Google Lays Out Display Ad Democratization Strategy.
• Bugged by DoubleClick.
• Breaking Google And The Browser Paradigm.
• Why Newspaper Will Build Bad Business Models.
• Are Google Losing the Plot?
• Apple Is Google's Biggest Threat - Here's Why.
• How Google became Microsoft - a decade of hits, misses, and gaffes.
• Google Loses a Round In Italian Court: Will YouTube Have to Pay Up?
• Google lawyers begin closing arguments in Italian trial.

Google news stories: December 16, 2009

• So Much for OpenID -- Google Friend Connect Gets Twitter, Facebook Connect Gets Yahoo. Also here, here.
• See That Funny 2D Barcode In The Store Window?  It Might Pull Up A Google Listing. Also here, here, here, here.
• Rightmove tumbles on talk of Google entering UK property market. Also here, here, here, here, here.
• Google predicts growth in online video ads. Also here.
• Nicolas Sarkozy fights Google over classic books. Also here.
• Netlist Sues Google For Patent Infringement.
• Mr. Google Goes to Washington.
• Mozilla exec urges Firefox users ditch Google for Bing.
• Mike Arrington Interviews Google's Marissa Mayer. Also here, here.
• LA Picks Google Apps And Partner CSC For E-mail System. Also here, here, here.
• In Russia, Google Ads Get Subversive.
• How Google is failing the launch of Google Wave.
• Google's Plan for Mobile Domination.
• Google's Eric Schmidt: The Fox Promising to Help the Chickens. Also here.
• Google's Coronation Street view.
• Google's Android Suits Up for Business.
• Google’s Coolest 20% Project: Liquid Galaxy.
• Google’s Busy Week.
• Google: 'we Want to Make All Browsers Better'.
• Google, Facebook, Ebay Confront UK Government About Digital Bill.
• Google versus the rest.
• Google To Lay Undersea Telecom Pipes To Asia. Also here.
• Google To Hold an Anything-Bing-Can-Do-We-Can-Do-Better Search Event Monday.
• Google Tells AdSense Publishers, Your Earnings are "Estimated".
• Google Suspends Local Listing Ads — For Now. Also here.
• Google rolls out dictionary functionality. Also here.
• Google opens up personalized search to even those who haven't signed in.
• Google Offers 200GB Storage Deal with Eye-Fi Card.
• Google News changes are a bad way to cure a misdiagnosed problem.
• Google Makes a Second Real-Time Search Announcement.
• Google Looking To Buy Social Search Startup Aardvark For $30+ Million. Also here.
• Google Improves Itself.
• Google Goes All Out To Market Chrome To UK Users. Also here, here.
• Google Favorite Places Poster Start Arriving.
• Google expands plan to run own internet.
• Google Crowd Sources Local Data Correction.
• Google Claims to Not Want to Corner the Market On Brilliance, Humility.
• Google Chrome: A Masterstroke or a Blunder?
• Google CEO Eric Schmidt Interview: His Thoughts On Search, Books, News, Mobile, Competition And More.
• Google Buying Twitter Rumor Resurfaces, Sadly.
• Google Bets On Display Ads In 2010.
• Google attacked over data security.
• Google Asks For Help With Transcriptions.
• Google Answers Privacy Questions with Call for More Data.
• Google Announces A URL Shortener, Goo.gl.
• Google Android: on Inevitability, the Dawn of Mobile, and the Missing Leg.
• Google Android failing to find favour in Europe. Also here.
• Glue and BBH Labs win Google Chrome.
• Gavin O'Reilly calls for Google to respect copyright.
• Few Google Users Are Opting Out of Behavioral Targeting.
• Facebook denies it is indexing Google.
• Google UK is late to file accounts.
• CEO Eric Schmidt Reveals 'Centerpiece' Of Google's 2010 Strategy.
• Building the Google smartbook dream machine.
• Androids Everywhere in Google Telco Invasion.
• Google and Microsoft join I3A's Camera Phone Image Quality Initiative.
• Google's Got the Goods in Demographics.

Google news stories: December 15, 2009

• YouTube Wraps Up Another Content-Sharing Deal. Also here, here, here, here.
• YouTube Trims the Fat With New “Feather” Version. Also here, here, here, here, here.
• Nexus One: The Google Phone in Pictures. Also here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here.
• Google buys AppJet, maker of EtherPad word processor. Also here, here, here, here.
• Will the New Google Chrome TV Ads Convince You to Dump Firefox or IE?
• Will Chrome netbooks really be competitive?
• Google’s Schmidt: ‘Frustrated Newspaper Execs Just Looking For Someone To Blame’. Also here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here.
• What We Know (So Far) about Google's Royal Wedding.
• What scares Google? Missing the next big thing.
• Apple, Google Vie for Start-Ups.
• Verizon Calls iPhone A 'Digitally Clueless Beauty Queen'.
• The Next Phase of Google’s Internet: Google Public DNS. Also here, here, here, here, here, here.
• The Logic of Google Ads.
• The Fall of The Benevolent Google.
• The brain at Google.
• Take a Tour of Google's Business Apps.
• Still Waiting for An Evil Google? It's Not Going to Happen.
• Re: Google's Eric Schmidt On Privacy. Also here.
• Online Bathroom Retailer Plumbworld.co.uk Announce Google Adwords Spend Tops £2.7million.
• Acer planning 'five or six' Android sets in first half of 2010. Also here.
• Salesforce, Google y Microsoft serán los 'reyes' del Cloud Computing en 2010.
• Axel Springer Wants Newspaper-Google Paid Content Partnership. Also here.
• How Vevo Makes Google More Like Coca-Cola.
• Google's War With Apple Is Hotter Than Ever. Also here, here.

Google news stories: December 3, 2009

• YouTube's Huge Ads Make Big Money.
• Will Google Ring Its Digital Cash Register for Thee and TV.
• Where Google Goes From Here. Also here.
• What does Google think about on a Travel Think Day? Not much.
• Web-Based Productivity Suite Zoho Launches Full Integration With Google Docs.
• The future of journalism on the Internet. Did Google just blink? Also here, here, here, here, here, here.
• Regional editor: Google is not the problem, our readers are dying off.
• Online property market threatened by Google's talks with estate agents. Also here.
• Google and Twitter Hook Up On 9 Million Sites.
• Amazon.com Fails to Get Judge to Reject Google Pact.
• Acer: We'll have the first Chrome OS Netbook. Also here, here, here, here.
• Google vs. Microsoft: The view from a guy who worked for each.
• Google, Facebook, Yahoo, eBay pen letter opposing UK copyright bill.
• Judge Rejects Amazon Complaint Over Google Books Deal. Also here.

Key official Google blog posts: December 2, 2009

• "If you were a brand new QA manager ..."
• Changes in First Click Free.
• Climate Action - Let Gov. Schwarzenegger be your guide!
• Compete & YouTube Present: Driving Brand Engagement among Social Media Users.
• Displaying the best display ad with Teracent.
• Etherboot Project GSoC 2009 Report.
• Four Googlers elected ACM Fellows.
• FTC looks at the future of news.
• Get movie trailers and more with Google Search for mobile.
• Google and paid content.
• Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server now connects businesses of all sizes.
• Google Apps Premier Edition Innovation – Year in Review.
• Google Search by voice: Now in Times Square!
• Googlers Beta - 2009 Edition - Lu Chen.
• How fast is your site?
• Introducing the Google Model Your Town Competition.
• Iraqi Government on YouTube.
• Now you see it, now you don't.
• Primer concurso de mapeo para América Latina con Map Maker.
• Same Protocol, More Options for News Publishers.
• Santa, Santa, when will you be here?
• Show Your Vote for COP 15.
• Spread some holiday cheer, one card at a time.
• Street View trike competition university finalists.
• SWIG's Second Summer of Code.
• The Apertium Project's First Google Summer of Code.
• The Iterative Web App: A new look for Gmail and Google mobile web apps.
• Three reasons to consider Google Apps.
• University of Waterloo's Artificial Intelligence Contest.

Google news stories: December 2, 2009

• YouTube to take on iTunes, offer paid TV? Also here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here.
• Google to Retire Gears in Favor of HTML5. Also here, here, here.
• YouTube launches first UK ad campaign.
• YouTube Is Where the Movie Watchers Are.
• Why Chrome OS Is No Threat to Windows. Also here, here.
• Turkey to face European Court on YouTube ban.
• ThinPrint Announces Cloud Printing Solution for Google Chrome OS.
• The Story of Sergey Brin.
• The Shot Heard Around the World: Google's Endorsment of "get Google Ads Free!".
• The Google Phone Is Very Real. And It’s Coming Soon. Also here, here, here, here.
• The 'Google phone' - carrier reference design or open tablet?
• Syndication group takes aim at Google.
• Survey: Android Developers Unhappy. Also here.
• Stop the presses: News Corp might not de-list from Google after all. Also here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here.
• What Google's Chromium OS Is Reaching For.
• Chrome OS Presents and Futures.
• One of Google Chrome OS's hardest tasks? Printing.
• New Google Ad Formats Seen Driving Revenue.
• MIT, Google, And Umberto Eco Want To Erect a Realtime Cloud Over The 2012 London Olympics.
• Italian Prosecutors Assume Google Execs Read All YouTube Comments.
• Google publishes Stanford dissertations online.
• Bloomberg's William Pesek discusses China's anti-Google model.
• Google helps YUDU launch SmartADS.
• Google encourages proposal that aims to restore faith in ads.
• Google Chrome OS stakes all on cloud-based low-power machines.
• Google Chrome giant advent calendar on show in London!
• Google and Nokia rise to App store challenge.
• Gameloft Reverses Position, Will Develop For Android.
• Dell Tweaks Chrome for Mini 10v. Also here, here.
• Google to Move Into Clean Energy Project Investing. Also here, here.
• Google Still Dominant In Mobile Search Despite Yahoo-Microsoft Distribution Deals.
• Google Reveals Winners of Android Developer Challenge 2.
• Google Patent Reveals New Data Center Innovations.
• Can Google succeed outside of search?
• AOL plans to Google-ise its news.
• Android: It's the software, stupid.
• 74% of the world, Google’s Chrome OS is not for you.