Advertising and Search Confidence: Google As Government
March 26, 2016
I read “US State Department Emails: Google Wanted in 2012 to Help Syria’s Rebels Overthrow Assad.” The story might be a load of horse feathers. I stopped and read the article and noted this passage:
Messages between former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s team and one of the company’s executives detailed the plan for Google to get involved in the region. “Please keep close hold, but my team is planning to launch a tool … that will publicly track and map the defections in Syria and which parts of the government they are coming from,” Jared Cohen, the head of what was then the company’s “Google Ideas” division, wrote in a July 2012 email to several top Clinton officials.
Perhaps this is Palantir envy? Clever folks are confident of their abilities. And here is a See Also reference.
Stephen E Arnold, March 26, 2016
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