When I contacted Google for comment, the company confirmed that it had fixed the issue and paid a reward to Oberheide.
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So when I say Google is trying to ruin my life, you can be sure my concerns go deeper than, say, a broken nail.
When I first joined Google right out of college, I learned a lot in my first six months there.
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Similarly, when I do a Google search I know that Google is now using my past search behavior, my online presence and connections, and relevant algorithms to serve up information that is personalized for me.
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But I know that for now, when I search current events I go to Google News.
Their eyes water when I mention that now Google has introduced a new social network.
When I first started at Google, fresh out of school, I was taken aback by how curt and angry many senior execs seemed.
When I started to look at Google Maps, I knew I had a solution.
It makes me crazy once in awhile when I see us on a Google page with someone who is totally third rate.
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So the number one on Google Trends when I first checked it was Vinson Massif, which is the actually the name of the highest mountain in Antarctica.
"When Google knows that I'm a man, and I live in this zip code, and I went to this school, and I have these interests, my entire experience gets better, " he explains.
Based on a conversation I had with Marissa Mayer when she was a vice president at Google, I think the policy is consistent with her approach to innovation.
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Even when I went looking for it in a Google news search, most of the places reporting it were in the entertainment media.
Best of all, when I tried to submit a comment to Google for feedback that might help them, I was directed to log into a Google Mail account.
When Google Plus was first released I was impressed.
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Warning flags for me at Google started to appear when I realized that many projects either had no concrete launch paths or depended on non-transparent approval processes over which I had little visibility or control.
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Out of curiosity, I compared the Facebook and Google options when it comes to relationship status.
And when I bump into a company that is juggling Apple or Google products, along with Microsoft applications in their workplace, I have to bump up their proposed implementation and support costs.
When I noticed that a background check company had taken out a Google ad on my name, I performed a little investigation.
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When I saw the reports of Apple recruiting engineers who had worked on Google Maps, there was no doubt in my mind.
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When I first heard that Apple was going to try and compete with Google Maps, given the above, my first reaction was to chuckle.
But when Google goes to extraordinary lengths to avoid paying its taxes, I say it's wrong.
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Recently, when my Dell computer running Windows 7 had a problem with Google Chrome I was pretty much on my own.
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When I double-checked the hotel's address on TripAdvisor (their Google results are often ahead of the first-party site), the hotel had dropped to No. 34 and was offering a 50 percent off special.
When I spent a summer there in 2010, I found the idea of Google holding itself to a higher standard than other companies was widely shared by rank and file Google employees.
When I spoke to Mann and Fateh, neither had had the opportunity to try out Google Glass.
As I was looking at different opportunities I really thought back to my experiences I had when (Kleiner partner) John (Doerr) was on the board at Google and (Kleiner partner) Mary (Meeker) was on the board at Square.
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Sergey and I first heard about Android back in 2004, when Andy Rubin came to visit us at Google.
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As a user, I find it useful that Google includes some images in the main search results page when it thinks image results are likely to be relevant.
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