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.'
The blackballing started after Cnet of San Francisco ran a story in July about potential privacy concerns over Google. As part of the story, News.com included personal details about Schmidt such as his net worth, political contributions and home town that were found by using his company's search engine.
Soon after, News.com's editor Jai Singh said, a Google spokesman called to object to the article's contents and then added that Google employees would not speak with Cnet's reporters until July 2006.
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