Google ends boycott of Cnet news service

Iria · Sep 28, 2005, 05:48 PM

Google Inc.'s wrath is short lived, it turns out.

The Mountain View search engine has ended a one-year boycott of reporters from Cnet Network's online technology news service News.com 10 months early.

Eric Schmidt, Google's chief executive, granted an interview with a Cnet reporter for an article published Monday night.

"I'm not surprised at all that Google changed its mind," said Mark Glaser, a columnist for the Online Journalism Review, an online newsletter by the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communications. "This whole thing was a big mistake on Google's part."
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Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	Google ends boycott of Cnet news service Google Inc.'s wrath is short lived, it turns out. The Mountain View search engine has ended a one-year boycott of reporters from Cnet Network's online technology news service News.com 10 months early. Eric Schmidt, Google's chief executive, granted an interview with a Cnet reporter for an article published Monday night. "I'm not surprised at all that Google changed its mind," said Mark Glaser, a columnist for the Online Journalism Review, an online newsletter by the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communications. "This whole thing was a big mistake on Google's part." ___________ Read More / Source: SFGate