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How Is Google Changing Our Lives?
Backed by 25 lobbying and PR firms yesterday, Google's Chairman Eric Schmidt faced a Senate committee, determined not to avoid the mistakes Bill Gates made 13 years ago...
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenBacked by 25 lobbying and public relations firms yesterday, Google's Chairman Eric Schmidt faced a Senate committee, determined not to avoid the mistakes Bill Gates made 13 years ago. How dominant is Google? Can users completely trust it? We hear about the good and the bad. Also, stocks fall on news that the global economy is in the danger zone, and pieces of a retired American satellite are about to strike Earth, but nobody knows just where.
Banner image: Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee's Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights Subcommittee on Capitol Hill September 21, 2011 in Washington, DC. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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Even critics say Google makes the Internet usable. One clean and useful search tool has replaced that series of links that might or might not be productive. But it now handles two-thirds of all web searches in the US and gets three-fourths of the revenue. Is it using its dominance to lead searchers to its own products?
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NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite is heading into the lower atmosphere, where most is expected to burn up on re-entry. But some 300-pound pieces satellite are expected to rain down tomorrow someplace on Earth. NASA says it won't know exactly where until about two hours before they land.
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