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Title: Lookout, France! Google hires neo-con headbanger
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The Register
URL Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/24/google_neocon/
Published: May 24, 2005
Author: Andrew Orlowski
Post Date: 2005-05-24 18:59:36 by Eoghan
Keywords: headbanger, Lookout,, France!
Views: 177
Comments: 9
The company that prides itself on "Doing No Evil" isn't taking any chances with its latest executive appointment. Dan Senor, the company's new Global Communications and Strategy VP, has a CV guaranteed to have Register columnist Otto Z Stern firing a celebratory fusillade skywards from his compound in New Mexico. A former Senior Associate at the Carlyle Group, Senor was briefly Scott McLellan's deputy as White House spokesman before becoming head of the the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq's information department. The White House web site bills him as Senior Advisor to Presidential Envoy L. Paul Bremer III. Fox News hired Senor as a panelist in February. While in Iraq Senor showed his loyalty by going jogging in a Bush-Cheney '04 tracksuit. Not everyone is impressed. "I have come to associate his triangular, brush-cut head with an unceasing stream of bullshit. He's Ari Fleischer without the charm," writes one grump. "Hiring this guy is a repulsive move." Dan Senor - from Carlyle to Google via Fox An impressive resume, for sure, but one perhaps more useful to a company building a military task force than a search engine. And it'll be fascinating to see the reaction of the French, with whom Google is locked into some extremely sensitive negotiations, to Senor's brand of special diplomacy.
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#4. To: Eoghan (#0)
For them, owning Google would be a boon. They would worm they way into Google by stock manipulation. For all the blame that Google has already incurred, the kind of change of ownership I'm talking about would make this search engine into a nightmare. www.nomorefakenews.com Interesting take. Google as a part of Carlyle.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestIn the case of Google, who cares, except that ranking and listing of information has become a cornerstone of access to what the Internet has to offer. He who ranks also controls access, to a significant degree. And as we all know, there are people who want to stifle what kind of information we can find.
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