The cover story of the August edition of the German magazine “Der Journalist” focused on Google (The Information Imperium) and divided the story into two parts. One part is titled “The world is a Google” and I was asked to write this six-paged story. It starts with: “Google is about to become the world’s largest publisher, dealer, and registrar of information. But only very few users really know the US search engine has its finger in every pie.”
The second story is titled “Well-meaning dictator” and was written by Thomas Mrazek. It begins with: “Google is not only important as a research instrument, it has also become an important- even if sometimes controversial - distribution channel for news in the web, at least for German media.” Place your trial subscription here.

Media and journalists have realized – probably also due to the current developments (YouTube – Viacom, Google Analytics, Streetview) that the enterprise must be questioned and its real intentions must be unmasked.

Yesterday Andrea Gerk interviewed me in her radio show “Resonances” on WDR3 – among other topics we talked about the “Data monster”. The reactions by many of the listeners clearly proved that they wanted to know more about what was behind Google and which goals the company from Mountain View has on its agenda.

Friday, August 8th, 2008 10:55 am | Category: Google
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