information the google p.r. person sent the site this link it's holds it still holds the google plus projects headline at the top of the page and it carries this statement within the first paragraph google profiles is a product that works best in the identified state this way you can be certain you're connecting with the right person and others will have confidence knowing if there is someone real behind the profile they're checking out for this reason to google profiles that requires you to use the name that you commonly go by in daily life and the editor also reported that when after a further clarification from google about what their statement meant when it comes to youtube the representative said at this stage there is no further information to share so google you tube has sent out an announcement to tell their users the all you tube users must be linked to a google account in order to sign into their q two page while you tube nor google directly state that you can't be anonymous we understood that announce

industry second source came from a google page itself which stated today nearly all google profiles are public private profiles don't allow this so we have decided to require all profiles to be public if you currently have a private profile but you do not wish to make your profile public you can delete your profile or you can simply do nothing all private profiles will be deleted after july thirty first two thousand and eleven at the top of the page the graphic clearly shows the google plus project logo which will let our staff to believe that when google talks about their profiles they are referring to profiles on the google plus program turns out i was incorrect we should also note that other online sites mashable app plan or even the news page from yahoo hold the same information from google's own help page and share the direct text as well so we finally got in touch with another google p.r. is that if we spoke on behalf of the company and she clarified the statement that google profiles is what you use if you form a google plus page and those will be made public if you don't change

. >> let's talk about google. i joined google plus the other day. i didn't have an invitation, i said it on this show. one of our viewers sent me an invitation and i joined. you know how many google plus friends i have? >> you have one, because i just added you into my circle. >> oh, mied gy god, i had nobod my circle. thank you. i'm one of the 10 million-plus people on google plus. what an all-star second quarter that company has had. >> you said it. i mean, google beat the street, up 36% from a year ago. a profit rose as more people are clicking on google's ads. i never click on them, but people do. it's been a busy quarter as well, it spent $900 million on infrastructure, launched its laptop and google offers, google's answer to groupon. as for its answer to facebook, google plus has gone to 10 million users in two weeks. it's not even open to the masses yet. it's kind of fun. >> now that i have one friend, i probably have a circle. so i bless you for that. great to see you, i will talk to you later on tv and on google plus. let's go to rob marci

all google profiles are public we believe that using it google profiles to help people find and connect with you online is how the product is best used private profiles don't allow this so we've decided to require all profiles to be public so that you're wondering what happens if you don't make your google plus profile public and reveal your identity to all of everybody on the internet well it's to lead it but he doesn't love the google or tell us your real name or will cancel your account seems a little harsh wouldn't you say now google says if they're only going to make the users full name and gender displayed on the public profile of that so should google force everyone to make their profiles go public i don't think so but here's my big question for anybody who signed up for google plus should this policy really shock any of us the company has a long history of trampling on privacy rights and something that we've documented numerous times on this show humor former google c.e.o. eric schmidt and what he says about online privacy if you have something you do want and you want to know w

i'm not sure if you had a tab at the top of google that said personalize google, regular google, i think lot of people would choose the -- >> host: be they knew that it was -- right. if they knew that goggle's bending things in that direction. yeah. i'm struck by, i moon, to the story of bob -- i mean, to the story of bob, even sort of pre-bob there was patty mace's lab up at mit that are worked on participation, they called it collaborative filtering. and it was a service called ringo. and ringo was exactly an explicit you say what you like, and people hated hearing that when they made explicit choices, they actually hearing that their musical tastes were predictable. >> guest: right. yeah. >> host: so so if you like metallica, you may also like slayer. when the people bought xl, it didn't because no one was with ever asked to explicitly opt in to the system. no one had the cog cognitive dissonance. >> no, that's right. that people are willing on the shown things that they might like, but they don't like being told that, you know, you're going to like -- >> host: right. you're saying at

the experiment is i'm not sure if you had a tag that says personalized google, regular google i think lot of people would choose regular. >> host: if google is bending things in that direction. i'm struck to the story there was perry mason about mit that work on personalization. the called it, but if children ferdinand developed lido was exactly an explicit you say what you like, and people hated hearing when they made explicit choices they hated hearing it was predictable because of the likes to believe that eclectic music. and they would see if you like metallica you may like flyer so how could you predict -- when the perception came along which is the company amazon -- no one was ever asked explicitly to opt into the system and have the cognitive dissident. >> guest: that's right, the people are willing to be shown things they might like but they don't like being told that you're going to like -- >> host: so you say bring the cognitive dissidence back. at least tell people this is how the sausages made if you don't like it -- >> guest: right. and what that does then the argument, t

curate to prioritize pieces of data and show the things they think we are going to want to see at google this happens in the search results different people get different results for the same term based on with a click on in the past or what google knows about what kind of person they are on yahoo! use it happens and the stories themselves this is spreading across being based into more and more services on line for a simple reason which is that it can provide this sort of the code word as relevant you keep people coming back and presumably provide a better experience for them but the danger here is because it's very hard to see how your internet differs from any one else is on what basis it's being edited or carried you don't know what's being left out, you don't know -- you're not seeing with the other people might be seeing and most don't have a sense that it is happening at all. >> host: the internet is turning into unknown unknowns, not even aware that it's out there again. not knowing what can people we are using that as a way faltering searches >> guest: he google one engineer told

. >> so, we hear stanford and google, yahoo! surface through student projects, but has there been a example you can share with us, maybe an idea that blossomed into a company itself that was independent that was spun out, in a sense, from your lab? >> well, you know, there are a number of things that are out there, and sometimes the model has not been specifically putting it into a company like that. but for example, we've been involved for many years, actually, since the mid-1970s, in studies of energy efficiency. so, there are aspects of energy efficiency that you would find in, you know, in use in a very, very widespread way, because what the laboratory did in that case was rather than trying to stake out a specific position in owning a technology, was just to make it very widely available and to teach everybody how to do that, you know? so, sometimes we'll do that kind of thing. >> well, rephrasing of jon's question is kids come out of stanford and other schools and go off and create these companies. the brightest guys over

>> brands are clamoring to get in google plus. google does what google does.e's a network, everybody. >> i apologize for sbripting. >> it's funny because here's a company that couldn't get social right at all and now it's the fastest growing social network in history. 20 million in three weeks. it took facebook 852 days to get to 10 million. >> the voice mail. why don't you sign up. on the land line. >> we got invites. we thought that was special. >> i saw that. no problem. >> it will be back. >> brands saw it as an immediate opportunity. all of the fuss, the incredible bus, no pun intended. that was the last thing. now you have michael dell over a weekend asking, do you think that this would be a great place where we could bring suft mer service. he had a phenomenal reaction from customers. you start to see that the opportunity is really there. people expect brands to come to them. they don't want to visit websites and pick up the phone and call when they have a problem. there is nothing wrong with that. google under estimated the brand demand and as you saw

googles her drug of choice. and finds the dealer to satisfy her habit. >> i just typed in soma and all these web sites popped up. and i just picked one. >> reporter: the addictive muscle relaxant arrives, no questions asked, with the prescription signed by a doctor she never met. this doctor, who lives on long island, new york, thousands of miles away. >> did you ever see this patient, nancy fitzpatrick? can you let me know how these prescriptions are filled, sir? >> reporter: dr. karem tanos left without so much as saying a word. as cnn reported nearly three years ago, we know how this works. and it's helped to fuel a spike in prescription drug abuse that medical experts say has spun out of control. we went online and bought one of america's most abused drugs. it showed up left on a doorstep the very next day. and this is what is inside. it's prozac in its generic form prescribed to me by a doctor i've never heard of somewhere in tennessee. what's happened in the last three years since we bought those drugs? no

google continued its hiring blitz, adding 2,400 employees during the quarter. paid clicks, or the number of times internet users clicked on the company's ads, rose 18%, in line with estimates. >> tom: morningstar's rick summer thinks google should be a core holding for investors and he's looking for $720 per share. >> they're still hitting the cover off the ball with their existing business. generating so much free cash flow that they could easily invest hundreds of millions of dollars in these new businesses. that's a pretty powerful position to be in. which is why one of the reasons we love google is really their extreme dominance and what we would call an economic moat, or just extreme competitive advantages in that area. >> tom: before the bell, it was also decent earnings news. j.p. morgan was the first of the big banks to report quarterly results, and if its results are any indication, the banking business continues growing. earnings were six cents better than estimates and up from a year ago. while its retail banking business struggled, its investment ba

let's start with google. what do you like about google? what stood out for you? >> google, the most important salient point besides the fact that revenue was up 32% and net income was up 34.5%, revenue was actually over 9 billion dollars, it was google's stock that impressed me so much. google plus is a social media site that's competing with facebook. and google plus continues to add subscribers in a viral way, even though it's invitation only. it's different than facebook in that a user can differentiate and decide who they want in a particular circle within their social circle, very easy to use. it's appealing, and let me tell you susie, it's going to knock out the competition who is trying to edge in there against facebook. >> susie: what will that mean for google stock? it's been trading in the $00 range where do you see it going? >> google could easily go to $700, and i won't take four quarters to get there, it might only take two or three because of the added benefits of the extra eyeballs that google plus will bring into the formula. >> susie: let's talk

, telling google's then chairman and current executive chairman, erik schmidt, that google was filledh prominent displays of ads for rogue pharmacies, suggesting that google is profiting from advertisements for illegal sales of controlled prescription drugs online. google says it stopped the practice last year and has filed lawsuits against some of the online drug advertisers, but califano says these sites appear and then disappear, often overnight. >> i wrote to mr. schmidt and asked him, please, you have to look at what's going on. why are we having such an explosion in prescription drug abuse among teenagers and kids? where do they get them? >> reporter: google, he said, never responded. and google still isn't responding, telling cnn through a spokesperson "as this is a legal matter, we're not commenting on it". now cnn has confirmed google is bracing for what could be the biggest fine in u.s. government history for allowing the illegal flow of pharmaceuticals through its search engine. in an s.e.c. filing, the company disclosed it was setting aside a half billion dollars to potent

now google is trying to get into the social networking game again. this time with google-plus. some say it looks a lot like some popular site. a preview next. maybe, it's something you haven't seen yet. the 2nd generation of intel core processors. this is visibly smart.

i realize that. >> let's talk google buzz and google wave. now google plus.us is right now in a limited beta. really the tech world or the tech community, kind of geeks like me that want to dig this stuff, they're the ones who have access to it. the invites were so popular that they shut it down. but why it might work is because really we've kind of been trained on facebook of how to do social network. this is the first time that it got to the masses. now google, what they're trying to do with plus is make it more pick is. they have things called circles. in our lives we have different circles of friends often facebook we normally post something and it goes out to our buddies. with google-plus, you can drag and drop specific buddies and send a message. it's catered for you to choose who i want -- kind of the next level of how you can kind of get facebook more advanced to target the specific people in your life that you care about. the big thing -- sorry, go ahead. >> i want to ask you, it's exclusive. is that a good strategy, though? >> the problem is google

have already given google a slap on the wrist but after a group of people here in the u.s. created a combined lawsuit against the google or federal judge has now sided with the plaintiffs the decision by the silicon valley judge says that the internet giants knowingly installed software in their street view equipment which is a violation of the wiretapping at google's original argument was that they were going to do anything with that private data and basically they said that if anyone's delmar enough to have an unprotected router well then that information was fair game fair game excuse me anyways to be collected now the federal judge also said that google's argument doesn't hold up because any information even the flows through a non password enabled router is still protected the same way that cell phone conversations are protected so why is this a glimmer of hope for starters it means that anybody who uses an unprotected browser at any point in time like say in a coffee shop you're still granted the right of privacy for those that for that data and this ruling is also si

and google plus and so the internet has been graveyard google plus could be the next big thing but not of open source revolutionaries stepin and yesterday i was speaking on the possibility of an open source social network but i guess the future showing up a little bit early someone sent me a message about a platform called fredricka and it's pretty intuitive compass is all of the big preexisting sites and aggregates everything into a social stream best of all this is private or as public as you once it's a b. and they are going to try to lay claim to your content with despicable ip laws and tricky legally the most important feature though of course is that there is a dislike button what do you know someone is finally responding to market demand don't you just love the internet i can't give the fencer cannot work a proper detailed review just yet but check it out at project dot fredricka friends of the friend because dot com and let me know you think facebook your days may just be numbered and now some news from anonymous. in the past two weeks there have been several attempts made to d

unlike all the others, google doesn't have a dedicated device. google is selling content through the cloud to anyone's devise. it could be an ipad. anything but kindle because kindle will not sell google's products. but you can purchase google content on a blackberry, on your pc, whatever. and a big advantage that google has, because they've been digitizing books much longer than anyone else, they have a much larger stable of content. and i think that they could be a very, very significant player. they just launched their new e-book business in december. so they are the last entrance into the business. and i would watch them very carefully. there are altogether, as far as we know, 50 customers buying e-books right now. many of them are aggregators buying books for library, library consortiums such as net library. so, i would just conclude by saying i would be concerned about the proliferation, or e-book is that by removing the filter that publishers provide, we are going to be flooded with an awful lot of books that probably should have seen the

industry second source came from a google page itself which stated today nearly all google profiles are public private profiles don't allow this so we have decided to require all profiles to be public if you currently have a private profile but you do not wish to make your profile public you can delete your profile or you can simply do nothing all private profiles will be deleted after july thirty first two thousand and eleven now at the top of the page the graphic clearly shows the google plus project logo which led our staff to believe that when google talks about their profiles they are referring to profiles on the google plus program.

they created a blog in his name on google owned web site at the top of his google search result.ve the page about his non-profit foundation. and above the page about his top rated i-phone app. explain why somebody would want to do this to you. >> the if i speculated it would make me just as bad as they ar are. >>reporter: after labeling him a scam artist the blog says he never finished high school. which assures us he did. and says his mother is in a nursing home which clearly she isn't. in fact she walked right into court to testify on his behalf. he told the judge he wants google to take the blog down and tell him who wrote it. and he wants google to pay damages for not doing it sooner. but a lawyer for google said quote we are not creating the content. we are just providing a service thatÑi promotes free speech. if we were to remove every blog somebody doesn't like the blog it would seriously endanger free speech. >> i think google is on solid group as the law stated right now. >>reporter: our legal analyst dean johnson says unfederal law google is protected against paying dam

the key is for google they can say you've already got g mail, this on google, that on google, just bring >> they're a third mover. you've got facebook, myspace and google plus. >> starting a third social network sight but just like facebook supplanted myspace, maybe google will supplant facebook. i'm not going to bet the farm on it, though. >> in terms of hundreds of millions of users around the world. >> and google's previous attempt at doing social stuff like google buzz and google wave, those have not done well at all. >> so i don't want to be a downer on this, it has certainly shown some demand. cnet is very positive on it right now, and we understand that you can sign on but you have to be invited, and that ebay is selling invitations former 99 cents. >> i've not seen them on ebay yet, but if you go to plus.google.com they let people in chunks at a time. they don't want to crash the service within a few days, but everyone will be able to get in. >> appreciate it. >>> what's being called an unfairly long prison sentence is be commuted. why thousands of federal inmates could soon be g

and he wants google to pay damages for not doing it sooner. but a lawyer for google said quote, we not creating the content. we're just providing a service promoteing free speech. if we were to remove every blog if someone doesn't that like blog it could endanger free speech. >> i think google is on solid ground. >> abc 7's dean johnson says under federal law google is protected against paying damage autos there are no more responsible for the content that goes through their isp than say barns and noble responsible for the books it sells. >> but there is another legal issue that is not so clear. that is whether google's obligated to take the blog down and whether ekman gets to find out who his enemy is. >> is a gray area of the law. one that is evolving. >> i think the part of freedom of speech. do you have a right to know who is saying it. >> the judge agreed ordering google to hand over the malicious blogger's identifying information within 20 days. whether the blog has to come down he says he'll issue a ruling within a week. >> and a new se

because if that's an achilles' heel at facebook and google, it's privacy. a lot of people don't trust what's being done with their information. >> and trust is the biggest thing. so we have this sense that it's anonymous because most of the time we're in the comfort of our home in a locked room that we're online. it's not anonymous. it's in the private, and our data is being used. personal data about our behavior patterns, our children's behavior patterns is being used everywhere. and that's got to stop. and now that we're posting more information than ever, pictures and blogs and your addresses and mortgages and so forth, away we go. how do we protect it? >> what's the end game for this? what do you want to accomplish in the end with do not track and these privacy features? >> we want the user to be able to choose. we want complete transparency. if you want to take my information and sell to make money and to sell to third party, you telling me, i will decide if there's a value to me and i will decide whether i want to give that information. >> what if you

google should have worked on this earlier. have a product called google plus which has been in development for more than a year and a half which is a partial answer to that. but i think that's the area where i would have put more resources. >> eric schmidt there. google's search engine provides access to more than 8 billion web pages and counting, of course. nina? >> manisha, it takes more than a good product to hit jackpot. it's also how you sell it. up next on "the boss" our ceos get a master class in marketing. we'll be right back. london. this is "world business today." welcome back. >>> being the boss isn't just about making big decisions. sometimes it's all about knowing when to let someone else take the lead. sarah curran and steve hindy are just two of the executives we've been following. they know all too well that teamwork is key to success. it's time now for "the boss." >> previously on "the boss," growth in the fast lane. sarah curran fires the former head of market rg from lastminute.com to help grow her company.

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watch shares of google today. scott says new ceo larry page passed an important test. >> page is one of the founders, he recently took over again as ceo. wall street was nervous about him because he said from the git-go he was more interested in growing google than pleasing shareholders. well, surprise, he did both. google turned in its quarterly financials yesterday afternoon, the first full report under page's administration and they were fantastic. total revenue more than $9 billion in three months. page said on a conference call, 10% raises that google employees got worked better than expected. google employees are sticking around. are you on google plus? >> you know, i've gotten invitations. i haven't accepted or -- does that mean -- >> yeah, you're in. so google plus has been popular, spotify has been popular, because you have to have that invitation to get in. it's like a club. you want to see what's on the other side of the rope. look at the jimmy fallon show. >> the best way to overthrow the facebook gian

and twitter was always pretty much in so you can learn surprise on twitter now google launched google plus last week it's actually pretty interesting i spent some time poking around i was going to bob a month or so and you can look at those you say these are friends these are family these recall workers these are. both directly with but so are all of the new these are just acquaintances maybe these are people who are part of my whatever club i belong to at school or at work and so you can only segregate things that makes me privacy with your outside of broadcasting baby photos of all of these are going through so i think that's the next trend and we're seeing facebook kind of scramble to catch up to what google is doing now something earlier today that was probably not as i'm in terms of video conferencing that's probably not as good as what google announced last week as declan mccullagh correspondent for the net now last month had a spokesman adam gadahn appeared in a video urging followers to exploit us laws to attack enemies of islam. in the worst you've got a lot at your disposal

, google plus. it allows you to chat with up to ten people at the same time. zuckerberg hinted facebook and skype may consider something like that in the future. but it's not clear the service would be free. it may not have the futures of google plus, facebook has a lot more users. zuckerberg said the company has 750 million users sharing 4 billion things a day. tech experts says that gives facebook a big advantage. >> step one is where are your friends? right now, your friends are on facebook. until google creates something. and it's not circles. until google creates something that says i want to be there and not over at facebook, i don't see it as a threat to facebook. >> reporter: google plus has gotten positive buzz. zuckerberg and his facebook team has seen how quickly google has gained ground in the mobile phone market. and are not likely to take their eye off the composition. maggie lake, cnn, new york. >> this might be incredible. but in seven years, facebook has gone from a university exper

. >> it's google's latest social media venture is google-plus. drinking melvin has more in today's 20. >> google is launching its own social networking website designed to rival facebook called google plus. and as you might imagine, getting a whole lot of buzz online. people are allegedly scrambling for invitations, even selling invitations on ebay. but is it any better than facebook? we're joined by one of the 20, our list of the 20 people worth following in our community right now, also a social media analyst. and was one of those invited to try google plus. and let's start with that, patrick. you've been on it, you've tried it. what's the word? >> well, you know, the word is, is that this came in with a lot of buzz, not to drop the name of another google product, but a lot of people see this as the -- as the opposition to facebook. >> there has been, as we mentioned, a great deal of buzz, but it's not just -- it doesn't seem to be just folks on twitter talking about how good or how bad the program itself is. >> well, i think the tech community

. >>> on wall street, google rose 22 points. following google's strong earnings report.the chief executive officer of the dow jones company is the latest casualty of the news corp phone hacking scandal. dow jones ceo was in charge of the uk tabloid at the heart of the scandal for 12 years. he became head of dow jones in december 2007. rupert murdock owns the the paper. the chief executive national resigned. rebekah brooks is the editor of the tabloid that is accused of hacking into phones for stories. >>> a keep piece of nasa technology might be made here in the bay area. a richmond company just finished polishing 18 mirrors to be used in an ultraadvanced space telescope for nas a. the government spent $3 billion of the $6 billion price tag. but now the project is likely going to be scrapped as congress and the president make cuts in federal spending. >>> a bat sell brewing in san francisco between public health officials and so-called hooka lounges. they were ordered to shutdown today. 20 loungees are told to go smoke free or close their doors while 20 others are under

the second thing is google announced a new service recently called google plus which is essentially a direct challenge to facebook. i mean, these guys are the big two giants of this field right now. they are really battling each other economically. they do not always get along very well and they are now -- you are going to see google plus competing with facebook. >> certainly i heard less about google plus than the big facebook announcement. what do we need to know about that? >> first of all we haven't formally reviewed it yet at common sense media but you can go to commonsense.org soon and see what it is. essentially google is going to set up circles which are like facebook friends circles. they claim it's going to be more private and you're going to more specifically choose who your friends are and control information sharing. big issue here for parents and for all of us is privacy. how much information do you want to give away? how much information do you want your kids to give away? and quite frankly what age should your kids start being on facebook or google plus in the first pl

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