( image ) I’ve just been sent an official response from Google to the updated version of my story posted yesterday ( Compete To Death, or Cooperate to Compete? ). In that story, I reported about 2009 negotiations over incorporation of Facebook data into Google search. And Google Pages, Maps, etc. Google balked. MORE >>

Perusing my feeds today, I saw this post from Google’s blog: Search, plus Your World. In the post, Google extols the virtues of incorporating results such as “your personal content or things shared with you by people you care about. These GOOGLE IS FINALLY WORKING WITH FACEBOOK! Just its own, Google+ and Picasa.). MORE >>

One of my pet peeves about our industry is how slowly we change – I understand it takes a long time to gather consensus (it took three years to get AdChoices rolled out, for example) – but man, why don’t the big players, like Google, innovate a bit more when it comes to display advertising? MORE >>

To be fair, in the past few years a number of major Internet companies have gotten very serious about joining the conversation in DC – Google is perhaps the most serious of them all (I’m not counting Micrsoft, which got pretty serious back in 1997 when it lost an antitrust suit). “Fact-based debates occur here, every day. MORE >>

Google’s been the focus of most of this analysis (hell, I called Facebook an “ existential threat ” to Google on Bloomberg yesterday), but I’d like to pull back for a second. The “old” Internet is shrinking, and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google’s crawlers can’t climb. MORE >>