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Seattle's Cupcake Crawl

What's Google Doing in Our Basement?

Maybe We Should Just Send a Battleship to Mountain View

The Puget Sound/Silicon Valley battles are heating up. First, Microsoft is going after Google on the search front, combining a reportedly decent product with an aggressive marketing campaign that suggests that Google's search engine could drive you insane. Now, Google is taking aim at Amazon and its ... More >>

Sea Times Discovers the Armpit of Kitsap County

View Larger Map Now that Gorst -- the unincorporated Kitsap cove that reliably makes Bremerton look good -- has been touted as a bargain by The Seattle Times, it can only be a matter of days until the Pit becomes the latest real estate hotspot. Sandwiched between Bremerton's shit plant and Gold Mo ... More >>

Paul Allen vs. Google?

Cable, wireless phones, and billions of dollars for the FCC.

Passive Aggressive in the Workplace

Cable, wireless phones, and billions of dollars for the FCC.

Microsoft's Sacred Cash Cow

A former Microsoftie says addiction to Windows revenue, mediocre products, and missed opportunities could doom Seattle's most successful company.

Your SIFF Map and Exercise Guide

According to SIFF, its five main venues will be SIFF Cinema, Pacific Place, the Uptown, Egyptian, and Harvard Exit. (The satellite cinemas we'll discuss after the jump.) This means that SIFFgoers will have to precisely calculate their schedules and transit time when shuttling between screens during ... More >>

I Was Trying to Find Out if They Made a Pinball Machine Inspired by The Who

Instead I discovered what it is people do at work all day: Ask Google amazing questions like "Did they make a Titanic 2?"

New York Post: Bing Has Google in a Panic!

NY Post sets up a face-offIt's not often that the sensation-masters at the New York Post dive into the nerdy world of tech battles, but yesterday they weighed in on the Google/Bing battle (which has yet to be proved a battle, except in Microsoft commercials). Under the headline "FEAR GRIPS GOOGLE", ... More >>

Google Attacks Pearl (Sammamish) Harbor!

It's on! Google has announced on its own corporate blog its intention to compete with Microsoft in the PC operating system market. That's right: It's Mountain View versus Redmond, the upstart search engine/advertising company against the world's No. 1 software company. Google has now stated its inte ... More >>

Amazon, Microsoft, and Yahoo Walk Into a Courtroom...

​...and they're all on the same side. Their common enemy? Google, of course. In a settlement with the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, the Mountain View search superpower obtained the right to scan and sell online out-of-print books, with Google keeping 30% of the prof ... More >>

MSFT Puts the Screw to Google

​We love a good corporate feud, especially when boardroom nastiness and pettiness are revealed. Thus, according to Web site DailyFinance.com, Microsoft has a big lobbying firm in Washington, DC, called the Law Media Group, which conducts a high-level, hush-hush "screw Google" meeting every wee ... More >>

Now's Your Time to Strike, Microsoft

​ The 'Soft, as it's known, has made no secret of the fact that it's taking aim at Google, be it through a Bing/Yahoo partnership or straight-up "Screw Google" lobbying meetings. But just as Google took advantage of hotmail's storage stinginess and overall unreliability to grow Gmail, so must ... More >>

Mr. Bezos Goes to Washington? Amazon Says Congress, Not Google, Should Decide Fate of Old Books

Great match! Wanna hit up the "Screw Google" meeting?​A few weeks ago, Amazon joined a coalition of the willing with Microsoft and Yahoo. They're all opposed to Google's deal to digitize a bunch of out-of-print books. Now Amazon says that not only is the deal Google struck with authors and p ... More >>

Bezos in Tech Mogul Bromance!

​​It was 1998. Amazon only sold books. And its CEO and founder, Jeff Bezos, was still a relatively young man with some hair left on his head. And Google didn't yet exist. Or rather, it was still in start-up mode, and early investors were buying its stock at pennies per share. Here's how ... More >>

AP Flies Microsoft Freak Flag in Online Battle

​The CEO of the Associated Press -- a company that, you may know, HATES THE INTERNET -- was speaking to journalists in Hong Kong when he let slip that his company was only talking to Microsoft, not Google, as it prepares to change the way it syndicates content online. The AP was blown-away by ... More >>

Throwback Tuesdays: Jolly Times Cook Book

​"Simple Recipes for Young Beginners" reads the tagline of this small book by Marjorie Noble Osborn. The recipes will fascinate you, with such hits as creamed salmon with peas, Yum Yum cookies, and a personal favorite, amber pudding. This cook book doesn't mean to be humorous, and flipping thr ... More >>

Microsoft to Team With Rupert Murdoch in Effort to Block Google?

Collude with this man at your own risk, Microsoft.​According to a report from the Financial Times, Microsoft is in talks with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to pay for the exclusive rights to deliver search results for papers like the Wall Street Journal, New York Post and others. Murdoch has be ... More >>

As If Tim Eyman Hasn't Done Enough Damage, Now His Web Site Can F**k Up Your Computer

The black means he's evil...​Or so says Google. According to a "Safe Browsing" advisory from the search giant, Eyman's site, www.permanent-offense.org [don't click, for the love of humanity!], is "listed as suspicious" and "may harm your computer." It seems that destroying our state's tax b ... More >>

Now Tim Eyman's Going to F**k Up Your Computer, Too

Even the man’s software is malicious.

Seattle Blogs: The Coming Microsoft-Google Phone Wars?

Cory O'Brien via TwitterOne Google phone to rule them all.​Serving up the best of the local blogosphere, once daily. - All About Microsoft asks if Google's new Nexus One phone will spur a Microsoft copycat. While TechFlash explains how Microsoft inadvertently helped Google build their much-hy ... More >>

Google Stops Censoring China: Will Microsoft Quit Being Evil Next?

When it comes to China, the horns and pitchfork no longer fit.​The biggest tech news of the day is that Google has stopped censoring search results on its Chinese web site. After finding a security breach targeting the e-mail addresses of human rights activists, Google announced that they'll t ... More >>

Flaw in Internet Explorer Cause of Google's Decision to Uncensor Chinese Searches

This is how the world sees Google. A pleasant PR scenario for which they can thank rival Microsoft.​A side effect of Google's decision to stop censoring it's search engine in China has been the unwanted spotlight it's cast on Microsoft. A starring role the Redmond giant has handled with all th ... More >>

Is Google's High-Speed Internet Coming to Seattle?

Kirby, the hamster whose furious leg-pumping provides most of Seattle with its internet power, says he would welcome the chance to hop of "this damn wheel."​The lack of high-speed internet options in Seattle is a black eye for such a tech-savvy city. A situation that's so bad we're even jealou ... More >>

Seattle Not High-Tech Hub Enough for Google?

Hover cars. That's what we need to make Google like us.​When Google announced it was going to provide high-speed fiber-optic internet service to a handful of cities around the country, Mayor Mike McGinn did his eager best to move to the front of the line, sending in Seattle's entreaty 24 hours ... More >>

How to Sell Out to Google

Five easy ways to make your company part of the Gfamily.

Pendejos Exist in Every Ethnicity

Five easy ways to make your company part of the Gfamily.

Is Seattle Doing Enough to Woo Google?

When Google first announced it was accepting applications from cities that wanted a piece of its high-speed broadband networks, Seattle had its i's dotted and t's crossed within 24 hours. But was a prompt response enough to woo the search giant? It'll be a while till we find out -- Google hasn't ... More >>

Why Google's Ultra High-Speed Broadband Won't Be Coming to Seattle

Texas REALLY wants help from Google. Us? Not so much.​When Google first announced that it was looking for guinea pig communities to test out its ultra high-speed broadband, dignity went out the window almost as quickly as the applications. Topeka temporarily changed its name in honor of the Si ... More >>

Microsoft Beats Google in Critical WNBA Branding Battle

Microsoft and the Storm--partners in decision engineering!​Just like in Europe, corporate logos are increasingly common on the jerseys of our pro athletes. Xbox360 Live has been slapped on the chests of the Sounders for several seasons, and now our WNBA franchise is joining the Microsoft famil ... More >>

Google Strikes Back?

How might the search giant retaliate for the Seattle Storm's alliance with Bing?

David Barksdale, Google Engineer, Fired for Spying on Teens

​According to an anonymously sourced report on Gawker, David Barksdale, a 27-year-old former Google engineer, was fired in July after the search company found he'd been spying on four teenagers. Barksdale met the kids at a Seattle-area technology group while working in Google's Kirkland office ... More >>

Eat Your Oatmeal

How a Fremont programmer created one of the web's top cartoons.

Bing Sting Catches Microsoft Stealing Google's Search Results

​Computer cops at Google have just completed a "sting operation" and made the bust of a lifetime. Or something.

Microsoft vs Google in Twitter Fight to the Death

​In the red corner, fighting out of Redmond, Washington, with $86 billion in assets and 89,000 slave-driven employees... It's Microsoft! And in the blue corner, from Mountain View, California, commanding $46 billion in assets and helping 65 percent of the country find its porn... Google! Lllll ... More >>

Google Links Hiybbprqag.com to Jobs Page in Dick Move on Microsoft

​The word "Hiybbprqag" got the Steven Colbert "Bump" this week. That's after Google said it proved that Microsoft was stealing its search results for use on Bing.com. Colbert's translation for the word: "You got served." Now, adding insult to injury, Google is seemingly using the word as a not ... More >>

Trimpin: The Sound of Invention

​The word "Hiybbprqag" got the Steven Colbert "Bump" this week. That's after Google said it proved that Microsoft was stealing its search results for use on Bing.com. Colbert's translation for the word: "You got served." Now, adding insult to injury, Google is seemingly using the word as a not ... More >>

Google Hears Antitrust Drums Banging, Blames Microsoft as Principal Percussionist

​In the 1990s, Google President Eric Schmidt was working for Sun Microsystems and was part of a small but vocal group of techies who helped the federal government put the antitrust reigns on Microsoft. Now it's Google that's getting "too big for its britches" and the monopoly drums are beating ... More >>

Why You Should Never Use a Smart Phone at Starbucks

​Actually you shouldn't use a smart phone (especially Android-powered) on any open wifi network, Starbucks' or otherwise.

Stephen Harper, Canadian Prime Minister, Posts Pussy Pics On Google

​Stephen Harper has a feisty pussy. Wanna see?

What to Call the Rosh Hashanah Challah

​Rosh Hashanah started last night, and many Jews enjoyed a holiday dinner featuring a round challah. Or was it a turban challah? The terms "round" and "turban" are used interchangeably, but the latter seems to have a special hold on the Puget Sound area. I'd never encountered the phrase until ... More >>

Holey Shit's Homemade Bagels

Making perfectly round dough wheels is very hard.​The Place: The kitchen in my one-bedroom apartment on First Hill. The Hole: Plain bagels with Golden Glen Creamery Cinnamon and Spice spread. The Shit: We Seattleites love criticizing our local bagel options. They're too bready, too bland, to ... More >>

Possibly-Everett-Based Credit-Card Scammers to Face Internet Retribution of the Highest Order

​The average person knows when they get an automated phone call from someone at "Credit Card Services" who asks for their card info that it's probably a scam. What the average person doesn't know is that there's a fairly easy way to get revenge on the scammers using the power of Google.

Quit Whining About SOPA and PIPA. Where's the Public Outrage Over Internet Piracy?

Duff McKagan is Guns N' Roses' founding bassist, and the leader of Seattle's Loaded. His column runs every Thursday on Reverb. His memoir, It's So Easy (Simon & Schuster) is out now.​Sitting in my usual chair, watching my usual a.m. updates on CNN's Headline News, Wednesday morning, I, like ev ... More >>