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Google Nixing Cnet?

So says Slashdot and Cnet (scroll to bottom). Say it ain’t so, Google! The story Google is upset about is this one….I remember seeing this piece, which has a bunch of personal info on Eric Schmidt that was found via Google, and thinking “Huh, some of the stuff in that story is old, or out of context,” and thinking that a few more phone calls would have been in order, at the least. But the point of the story, even if it was not necessarily made well, was that so much info was available on Google. And another point might be that a search engine never gives a full or necessarily accurate picture of the person (that point was lost). But to ban Cnet for this? Sounds a bit over the top.

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