Ken Auletta - Googled - The End of the World as We Know It

302 The online dating service: author interview with Barry Diller, March 3, 2009.

302 Mary Meeker predicts: author interview with Mary Meeker, January 23, 2009.

302 By mid-2008 China: “ China ’s Internet Cafes Still Crucial to Online Game Growth,” VentureBeat.com, August 17, 2008.

302 “PiperJaffray projected”: Matt Richtel and Bob Tedeschi in the New York Times, April 6, 2009.

302 “we want to get credit card numbers”: author interview with MarcAndreessen, March 27, 2008.

302 “the stealth device”: author interview with Ivan Seidenberg, October 30, 2008.

302 “social network traffic”: author interview with Eric Schmidt, June 11, 2008.

303 “We made one really big mistake”: author interview with Dr. John Hennessy June 9, 2008.

303 “A lot of people believe that”: author interview with Eric Schmidt, September 15, 2008.

303 “my current view of the world”: author interview with Eric Schmidt, April 1, 2009.

303 “newspaper ad dollars”: from the Web site of the Newspaper Association of America.

304 Many students clamor: e-mail exchange with Ernest Sotomayor, December 7, 2008.

304 “many of our students”: e-mail exchange with Nicholas Lemann, September 4, 2008.

304 “take the New York Times”: financial data from Ken Auletta, “The Inheritance: Can Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., Save the Times-and Himself?,” New Yorker, December 19, 2005.

305 “the kinds of stories”: author interview with Larry Page, March 25, 2008.

305During the wrenching transition to print: Clay Shirky blog, March 13, 2009.

306 “Sell it!”: author interview with Marc Andreessen, June 9, 2008.

307 more than a few papers “will disappear”: Rupert Murdoch speech at the D Conference attended by author, May 28, 2008.

307 He wrote that newspapers: Michael Hirschorn, “Get Me Rewrite!” Atlantic Monthly, December 2006.

309 “Apple’s iTunes”: author interview with Eric Schmidt, October 8, 2007.

309 “for newspaper companies”: author interview with Andrew Lippman, February 10, 2009.

309 “Can you put it behind a wall”: author interview with Marc Andreessen, February 20, 2009.

310 Attorney General Eric Holder: Randall Mikkelsen, “U.S. Law Chief Open to Antitrust Aid for Newspapers,” Reuters, March 18, 2009.

310 In 2009, three longtime media executives: Richard Perez-Pena, “Plans for a Paid Online Media Service,” New York Times, April 15, 2009.

310 an online publication: Jack Shafer, “Hello, Steve Brill, Get Me Rewrite,” Slate.com, April 17, 2009.

310 “I don’t know how”: author interview with Larry Page, March 25, 2008.

311 “We’ve been able”: author interview with Eric Schmidt, March 26, 2008.

311 income from digital operations:New York Times Co. financial disclosure for the year ending December 31, 2008.

311 About half of the About Group’s revenues: two author e-mail exchanges with Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., April 29, 2009.

311 “The official answer”: author interviews with Eric Schmidt, March 26, 2008 and April 1, 2009.

312 “Our industry faces”: author e-mail exchange with Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., April 29, 2009.

313 10 percent of these were downloaded: author interview with Jeff Bezos, July 9, 2008. When I sought to update this number, Bezos’s deputy Craig Berman, reported in a May 2009 e-mail that it had grown to 35 percent.

313 What gives publishers pause: Motoko Rich, “Preparing to Sell E-Books, Google Takes on Amazon,” New York Times, June 1, 2009.

313 “Physical books”: Jeff Bezos interviewed at the D Conference attended by author, May 28, 2008, and interview with author, July 9, 2008.

314 nightly audience has plunged: nightly news audience decline from Richard Perez-Pena, New York Times, May 11, 2009.

314 Jack Myers projects: Myers Advertising and Marketing Investment Insights, March 10, 2009.

315 Neilson reported in early 2009: Nielsen report on fourth quarter 2008 television and Internet video cited in the Wall Street Journal, February 23, 2009.

315 If four million: Bobbie Kotick interviewed at D Conference attended by author, May 28, 2008.

315 “To survive”: author interviews with Quincy Smith, January 23, 2008, and April 9, 2008, May 19 and 25, 2009, and with Les Moonves, July 8, 2009.

316 The biggest box office: Brian Stelter and Brad Stone, “Digital Pirates Winning Battle with Major Hollywood Studios,” New York Times, February 5, 2009.

316 Sergey Brin described going on a boat in Europe: author interview with Sergey Brin, March 26, 2008.

317 So they initiated efforts: Sam Schechner and Vishesh Kumar, “Cable Firms Look to Offer TV Programs Online,” Wall Street Journal, February 20, 2009, and interviews with senior television executives.

317 Eric Schmidt saw a demonstration: author interview with Eric Schmidt, April 1, 2009, and Sezmi.com.

318 “We can go directly”: author interview with Ivan Seidenberg, October 30, 2008.

319 Irwin Gotlieb also dismisses: author interview with Irwin Gotlieb, February 9, 2009.

321 “Do you feel bad”: author interview with Eric Schmidt, March 26, 2008.

CHAPTER 17: Where Is the Wave Taking Google?

322 “When asked to describe the difference”: author interview with Eileen Naughton, February 28, 2008.

322 “If you can solve search”: author interview with Larry Page available on YouTube, May 1, 2002.

323 “we scale”: author interview with Sergey Brin, March 26, 2008.

323 uploading eighty-six thousand full length movies: “Letter from the Founders,” Google 2008 annual report, April 2009.

323 “Everything Google does”: Bala Lyer and Thomas H. Davenport, “Reverse Engineering Google’s Innovation Machine,” Harvard Business Review, April 2008.

324 Its social network site: author interviews with Google executives in Russia, Jason Bush, “Where Google Isn’t Goliath,” BusinessWeek, June 26, 2008.

324 “These companies air kiss”: author interview with Andrew Lack, October 4, 2007.

324 Facebook had 200 million users: author interview with Sheryl Sandberg, March 30, 2009.

324 “Anybody that gets”: author interview with Bill Campbell, October 8, 2007.

325 Lee began with: author interview with Kwan Lee, February 10, 2009.

325 “lacks a social gene”: author interview with John Borthwick, April 28, 2008.

326 “If I were Google”: author interview with Danny Sullivan, August 27, 2007.

326 The problem with horizontal search: author interview with Jason Calacanus, September 21, 2007.

327 “the semantic web”: Katie Franklin, “Google May Be Displaced, Said World Wide Web Creator Tim Berners-Lee”, Daily Telegraph, March 3, 2008.

327 “hundreds of years away”: author interview with Craig Silverstein, September 17, 2007.

327 “We are no closer”: author interview with Marc Andreessen, March 27, 2008.

327 In his provocative book: Nicholas Carr, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, W. W. Norton amp; Company, 2008.

328 “this was the thrust”: Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, Viking Penguin, 1985.

328 Tara Brabazon, a professor: accounts of Professor Brabazon address in both the Economic Times and the Telegraph, January 14, 2008.

329 Miguel Helft of the New York Times wrote a series of stories in April 2009 on challenges to Google’s book settlement; amicus briefs were filed with U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin on April 13 and 17, 2009.

330 Miguel Heft, “YouTube Blocked in China, Google Says,” New York Times, March 25, 2009.

330 “ China ordered PC makers”: “U.S. Makes Official Complaint to China over Internet Censorship,” Financial Times, June 22, 2009.