There was a time, for example, when Google allowed German users to blur their homes out on Google Street View.

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Forbes recently put Thrun, a German-born Google vice president and part-time computer science professor at Stanford, on the cover of the magazine.

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In the last year, MOOCs have been growing fast, with several start-ups, including Udacity, founded by Sebastian Thrun, a German-born Google vice president and part-time Stanford computer science professor, edX, a collaboration between Harvard and M.

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Microsoft is seeking, and now very likely to obtain, a German patent injunction against the Google Maps service, the Google Maps Android client app, and web browsers providing access to Google Maps.

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Google "Dresden" and "Kriegsverbrechen, " the German word for "war crimes, " and you'll get almost 26, 000 results.

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By doing this, Google violates European data protection law, according to a German data protection watchdog.

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That could be my lack of Google Fu, could be my not trying to search in German (or Turkish).

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Google for .search, .cloud and .gmbh (a reference to a type of limited German company).

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