Slog - Comments on Google Buys Doubleclick, World http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/google_buys_doubleclick_world Google has reached an agreement to buy web ad behemoth DoubleClick for $3.1 billion in cash. If that sounds like a lot of money, consider this: it's about 1/5th as much as the U.S. Army has paid to Halliburton in no-bid contracts since 2001. I got that information from this website, which also features interesting drawings of how big different amounts of money are. I assume, of course, that their information is accurate. You may not know DoubleClick, but they know you--likely a lot more about you than you'd like.... Copyright 2008 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:04:53 -0800 Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:55:08 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Fnarf ...and "do no evil" recedes further and further into the past...

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/google_buys_doubleclick_world#c693393 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/google_buys_doubleclick_world#c693393 News Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:25:01 -0800 Comment by City Comforts "Seattle Center, who cancelled..."

"who?"

]]> City Comforts http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/google_buys_doubleclick_world#c693396 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/google_buys_doubleclick_world#c693396 News Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:30:08 -0800 Comment by Joe To the extent "do no evil" was ever meaningful, it ended on August 19, 2004.

]]> Joe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/google_buys_doubleclick_world#c693451 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/google_buys_doubleclick_world#c693451 News Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:55:08 -0800