
The Brief
Get Up To SpeedSoon after Google was founded, it adopted a corporate motto: don’t be evil. Since then, it has been the dominant curator of digital information, cornered the market on private email, and made personal information publicly available in unprecedented fashion. While it provides critical social and economic services for free, it has amassed enormous power over information exchange around the world. Has Google violated its “don’t be evil” motto?
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- Overview/History
- Copyright: YouTube
- Copyright: Book Search
- Google News
- Privacy
- Privacy: Cloud Computing
- Privacy: Chrome
- Privacy: Maps
- Privacy: Health Records
- China/Global Network Initiative
- Monopoly: Yahoo
- Monopoly: Double Click
- White Space
- Android
- Satellites
- Sea-Based Servers
- Energy
- Google.org
- Future Projects
- Making Us Stupid?
- Percent of Search Market
- Best Reputation
Harry Lewis

- Dean of Harvard College, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard
Harry Lewis, Boston Globe November 5, 2008
Harry Lewis, Christian Science Monitor October 7, 2008
Harry Lewis, Business Week August 4, 2008
Harry Lewis, Boston Herald September 20, 2008
Harry Lewis, Boston Globe June 14, 2008
Randal C. Picker

- Paul H. and Theo Leffmann Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Chicago Law School
Randal C. Picker, University of Chicago Law School June, 2008
Siva Vaidhyanathan

- Chair, Department of Media Studies, University of Virginia & Author of The Googlization of Everything
College students in America are not as digital as we might wish to pretend.
"Can Silicon Valley recapture the hold it once had on our imaginations? Probably not. That’s for the best."
Siva Vaidhyanathan on the Brian Lehrer Show April 11, 2012
Siva Vaidhyanathan interview with Katy Waldman, Slate, April 11, 2012
Siva Vaidhyanathan interview with Andrew Keen, TechCrunch, March 23, 2011
Siva Vaidhyanathan interview with Nora Young, Spark, CBC, May 2, 2011
Esther Dyson

- Investor and Director of 23andMe and Yandex
Interview by Charlie Rose August 14, 2007
Jeff Jarvis

- Director, Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism
Jeff Jarvis argues, “We are sharing a billion things a day on Facebook alone because we want to, because we find value in it. That’s where the discussion should begin, with the power of publicness, not with the presumption of privacy.”
Jeff Jarvis argues, “The problem with much of that so-called social-media work is that the goal is still to drive traffic back to the media site … If we instead judge our value on how well we inform people and how much we help them solve their problems and meet their goals, then we will go to wherever they are and use the tools at hand to deliver value the best way we can.”
Jeff Jarvis argues, “Twitter has also been crucial to amplifying the voices of activists, providing a platform for experiences of violence and oppression that conventional media would ignore.”
Jeff Jarvis is of the view that “almost all of what we do online is valuable and enjoyable but there are always things we can do to improve the experience and act more responsibly.”
Jeff Jarvis argues, “I am hopeful that Facebook’s effort to encourage ‘meaningful interactions’ could lead to greater civility in our conversations, which society desperately needs.”
Jeff Jarvis argues that the internet enables people to communicate directly to each other.
“The News Integrity Initiative will be run as an independent project by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism under the auspices of the School’s Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism, whose director is Professor Jeff Jarvis.”
Jeff Jarvis, Guardian September 15, 2008
Jeff Jarvis, New York Post June 9, 2008
Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine October 13, 2008
Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine September 13, 2008
Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine September 9, 2008