How Not To Use Google

To prove once again that evil is in the eyes of the beholder, Google last week decided to put CNET into a 'PR Sandbox' for one full year, because they dared publish otherwise public info about CEO Eric E. Schmidt. (more here and here and here)

ZDNET.UK, another CNET publication, fires back with this wry apology.

Acting under the mistaken impression that Google's search engine was intended to help research public data, we have in the past enthusiastically abused the system to conduct exactly the kind of journalism that Google finds so objectionable.