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Bad Reputation? Google Says Change Your Name

Abby Johnson — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:45:10 +0000

In a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, Google CEO Eric Schmidt predicted that young adults would need to change their names in order to protect their reputations. Since social media and the Web are gaining stronger influence in people’s lives, he believes this will be a natural solution moving forward.

“I don’t believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time,” said Schmidt to the WSJ.

Does this seem like an odd solution coming from Google’s chief executive? Many people across the Web think so since Google collects valuable user information and makes it available. Read Write Web, who first drew attention to this statement, suggested that parents give their children shortened names since they would have to change them down the line anyway.

TechCrunch refers to the idea as “downright pointless.” In addition, the always intriguing Gawker points out that Google’s CEO has “the scariest vision of the future of privacy.”

WebProNews also caught up with college student Andy Norris, who calls the concept a “cop out” on the search and advertising giant’s part and says, “Google should be able to do better than that.”

Privacy issues related to Google are nothing new, but it appears that consumer concern for them is growing. What are your thoughts regarding this proposed solution from Google’s CEO? Do you find it ironic coming from one of the most powerful technology companies?

Web 2.0 Expo: Live Interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt

admin — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:26:41 +0000

At the Web 2.0 Expo today, Google CEO Eric Schmidt spoke with John Battelle, Founder and Chairman of Federated Media Publishing, about many issues. First on the list of items to discuss, was the announcement of the presentation application as part of the Google Docs and Spreadsheets. The presentations portion completes Google’s basic Office suite that is scheduled to be out within the next few months. Schmidt talks about the DoubleClick situation and how they make a good team. Google is very confident in their decision. All the controversial issues are the highlights of the discussion including the Viacom situation. The interview concludes with the topic of the future of the Internet and Google and all the growth potential with both.

On the Phone with Popular Blogger Rebecca Kelly on the Blogging Craze

admin — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:55:37 +0000

The blogging craze may be turning into what some consider the “norm.” Since their emergence nearly a decade ago, they have flourished and include everything from news, politics, sports, and even their personal lives. According to blog search engine Technorati, 3 years ago, only 2 million blogs were on the webbut today, there are more than 60 million blogs across the web.

In an interview with Web Pro News, Rebecca Kelly of seomoz.org spoke how businesses are even using blogs to as an outreach for their businesses.
“It does kinda give a human voice and human representation to their company.”

The catch is that most blogs do not get very many hits. There are some that receive great feedback such as Engadget -which has more readers than most print newspapers and magazines. But aside from a significant few, the numbers aren’t as impressive. According to web-traffic measurement from ComScore, the top 25 blogs only account for a mere 10 percent of blog readership. CEO Eric Schmidt told United Kingdom politicians that the average blog has only 1 reader. If numbers aren’t the key to bloggingwhat is?

As Rebecca Kelly recountsthe point of blogging is the fact that there is a connection between the writer and the reader.
“A good business blog kind of gets your readers to think that you’re getting kind of a honest peek into the business, you know it’s good reputation management for the company.”