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Google's Chief Is Googled, to the Company's Displeasure .......

...........CNETNews.com, a
technology news Web site, said last week that Google had told it that the
company would not answer any questions from CNET's reporters until July 2006.
The move came after CNET published an article last month that discussed how the
Google search engine can uncover personal information and that raised questions
about what information Google collects about its users.
The article, by
Elinor Mills, a CNET staff writer, gave several examples of information about
Google's chief executive, Eric E. Schmidt, that could be gleaned from the search
engine. These included that his shares in the company were worth $1.5 billion,
that he lived in Atherton, Calif., that he was the host of a $10,000-a-plate
fund-raiser for Al Gore's presidential campaign and that he was a
pilot.
After the article appeared, David Krane, Google's director of public
relations, called CNET editors to complain, said Jai Singh, the editor in chief
of CNETNews.com. "They were unhappy about the fact we used Schmidt's private
information in our story," Mr. Singh said. "Our view is what we published was
all public information, and we actually used their own product to find
it."..............

hey mr schmidt, i love your search engine and use it all the time, but don't you get the feeling BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU TOO?