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...culminated in the birth of the Google Print Library project (since renamed the Google Book Search project), which in its culmination will not only enable users to obtain the customary title, author, publisher, or ISBN of a book by simple query, but also allow them to search within the content of all scanned volumes for keywords, sometimes returning even full passages from the text in question. The intended goal is to eventually make all public-domain works available online alongside excerpts from copyrighted material with the appropriate permissions. The result, no doubt, will be a triumph for information flow that...
...very clever. They wanted to be the launch partner for building the following: putting ads in front of their video content and jointly serving the resulting product off third-party sites, which is a huge distribution network for us. So you notice that each one of them is the leader in their category and wanted to do something that was really neat, really innovative from the standpoint of the end-user. Each of them solved a new problem...
...formulated 30 questions that we have to answer. I'll give you an example: we have a lot of cash. What should we do with the cash? Another example of a question that we are debating right now is: we have this amazing product called AdSense for content, where we're monetizing the Web. If you're a publisher we run our ads against your content. It's phenomenal. How do we make that product produce better content, not just lots of content? An interesting question. How we do make sure that in the area of video, that high-quality...
...quicker. Using the company's new "lean academy" philosophy (based on Toyota's manufacturing system), TXU can build all 11 coal-fired plants, cookie-cutter style, with the first online in 2009. Coal gasification simply isn't in TXU's plans, primarily because of problems with the high moisture content of the cheaper Texas and Wyoming coal it buys. Waiting until the next decade, when new technologies are proved, would be "devastating" for supply, warns McCall...
David Eun, Google's vice president of content partnerships, insists that consumer interests continue to trump business concerns. He points out that Google recently decided not to place ads at the start of videos on its site because users would expect to see content, not promotions, when they first clicked. "Don't make the customers hate you" is rule No. 1 on the Internet...