Incrementing Eric Schmidt’s CHUTZPAH Count

When it comes to Google-based Chutzpah of the Week awards, my recent practice seems to have been to assign them at the corporate level, rather than singling out individuals. Nevertheless, Eric Schmidt is one of the earliest Chutzpah of the Week award...

Google Gets It Wrong About Service

I see that I compared Google to “that small boy with a hammer who sees everything as a nail” back in November of 2007, which is when we saw the first signs of Google’s everything-can-be-reduced-to-search philosophy sticking its nose...

The Public Value And the Public Trust

Matt Asay’s latest Open Road column for CNET News is entitled “Google, the great destroyer of value?” His point of departure is, for better or worse, The Wall Street Journal: In a recent series entitled “The Future of Newspapers,”...