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Google Background Checks

Found this on John Battelle’s Searchblog, legal precedent has now been set letting Google searches for a person act as actionable information regarding employment.
That seems to be the crucial part of the ruling here, because it essentially means it’s acceptable for employers (or at least the federal government, as an employer) to check [...]

By Michael Buckbee | 11 May 07 | Also published in Startups, Strategy | Comments (0)

API Usefulness

One of the things I did to help manage Fabjectory mentions on the Internet was to develop a mini application that pulled in search results from a couple different sources and let me track and report on my responses to them. To pull this off, I used a number of free API’s whose results I [...]

By Michael Buckbee | 07 May 07 | Also published in Startups, Strategy | Comments (0)

Cursed Ad-Words Options

Curse Gaming is a site that hosts and manages user interface addons for Blizzards astoundingly popular World of Warcraft game.
They recently announced that they were changing the nature and type of their advertising. Previously, the site was slathered in Google Text ads offering (not suprisingly) ads for buying in-game Gold, exploits, hacks, etc. for [...]

By Michael Buckbee | 20 Feb 06 | Also published in Advertising, Metaverse | Comments (0)