Via Valleywag, "S.F.
mayor’s friendship with Google founders" from the San Francisco Chronicle
looks at questions of propriety over San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom accepting
rides on a private jet with Google’s cofounders along with campaign
contributions he’s received from individual Googlers and "hang out" time with
Larry Page. Nothing illegal is said to have happened, but with Google now
pitching to win a contract to give San Francisco wifi, there are concerns the
Chronicle says about relationships being too "chummy."
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Fun fact #1: "Wow, you looked at a lot of pages from my web site. How did you like it?" - people encountering a crawler for the first time. This and other quality snippets pulled from the original paper presenting Google in 1997.
Vic Gundotra, the driving force behind the Google+ platform, has announced he is leaving Google, which has many people pondering the future of Google+. Gundotra, who has been with Google for eight years, is leaving the company effective immediately.
Google has revealed profits for the first quarter of 2014 of $3.45 billion, up from $3.35 billion in the same period last year, but its average cost-per-click income has fallen by 9 percent year-over-year.
