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   Criticism of Google

   Google states that it is in compliance with all existing and historical applications of copyright laws regarding books. ... Google claims that mail sent to or from Gmail is never read by a human being beyond the account holder, and is only used to improve relevance of advertisements.
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   History of Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China

   TIME magazine reported that Google protests that it is in a tough situation but says it ultimately has to obey local laws. ... It is as yet unconfirmed whether these are instances of blocking, or something else.
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   Internet privacy

   Kurt Opsahl, the EFF's staff attorney, said "As far as I know, they (the respondents) are not public figures, so it would be challenging to show that this was something of public concern." ... While court papers did not describe how the FBI obtained his searches (e.g. through a seized hard-drive or directly from the search-engine), Google has indicated that it can provide search terms to law enforcement if given an Internet address or Web cookie.
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   Child pornography

   Google announced in 2008 that it is working with NCMEC to help automate and streamline how child protection workers sift through millions of pornographic images to identify victims of abuse. ... Others stated that the intended law would limit artistic expression, patrol peoples' imaginations, and that it is safer for pedophiles' fantasies "to be enacted in their computers or imaginations [rather] than in reality".
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   Hans Island

   According to an article in the Ottawa Citizen on July 27, 2005, Toronto resident Rick Broadhead saw an ad on Google stating "Hans Island is Greenland. ... August 20, 2005 - Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister, Pierre Pettigrew, stated that Canada's claim to the island had a firm basis in international law and would likely not end up before a world court.
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   History of Google

   Google said it would use the money for "acquisitions of complementary businesses, technologies or other assets". ... Google's CFO George Reyes said in a December 2004 investor conference that "something has to be done about this really, really quickly, because I think, potentially, it threatens our business model."
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   Censorship by Google

   Google complies with these laws by not including sites containing such material in its search results. ... Google states on its help pages that it does not censor content, but it does block pages as demanded for in certain jurisdictions, such as DMCA requests in the United States.
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   Charles Peirce

   It is something interpretable as saying something about something. ... Google Book Search Beta Eprint, users outside the USA may not yet be able to gain full access.
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   Charles Sanders Peirce

   It is something interpretable as saying something about something. ... Google Book Search Beta Eprint, users outside the USA may not yet be able to gain full access.
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    Google Book Search

    For users outside the United States, though, Google must be sure that the work in question is indeed out of copyright under local laws. ... On October 28, 2008 Google stated that they had 7 million books searchable through Google Book Search, including those scanned by their 20,000 publisher partners.

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