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Lawmakers Call for Google Buzz Investigation

By David KnowlesMar 30th 2010 – 8:17PM
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(March 30) -- The buzz on Google Buzz hasn't been all that pretty. Since the early-February launch of the Mountain View, Calif., company's integrated social networking, Web browsing and e-mail hybrid, Google has received terrible press and thousands of complaints from users. It also has found itself the target of a...

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  • 04/26/12 Journalist Rory O'Connor draws lessons from the past... Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel - Santa Cruz CA In 2006, Time magazine -- the proud standard-bearer of conventional wisdom in the news media -- drew snickers and rolling eyes when it designated "You" as its Person of the Year. As awkward as it was -- remember the cheesy mirror-like cover? -- it was Time's attempt to salute user-generated media in the exploding sphere of the Internet.

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Google Buzz was a social networking, microblogging and messaging tool that was developed by Google and integrated into their web-based email program, Gmail.

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