I find it ironic that Google doesn't want their search terms revealed, when they record and use all of mine.
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Apple Targets Android Source Code Search Documents in Suit Against Samsung
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ha. Although (in all seriousness even if you weren't being) the difference is yours is anonymized. Your searches also don't affect Google's bottom line in the same way as their search terms.
I understand both sides though and why they want what they want (and don't want what they don't want)
It will be interesting to see what the outcome is.
As an earlier commenter said... the article has a very poorly worded heading. It is a discovery request relating to search terms used to retrieve internal documents pertaining to the case... nothing to do with the OS source code.
They're not anonymized if I'm logged into Google. And my search terms certainly don't do them any harm.
What's the big deal with this Mac Pro thing that keep hearing a lot lately? Is this some snapier safari kind of joke? It has to be!
You know...all of this would have been resolved years ago if Apple had given in to Google's desire to merge the companies. Apple should start finding the hire ups and largest Google investors that feel like and Apple/Google merger would work for both groups and move forward from there. Yes, of course that would most certainly mean the end of Android. With Apple growing closer to Yahoo and Marissa Mayer they may have the one ally that could help broach the deal even in today's hostile tech environment.
Apple Google merger? No way
By the way, when had Google any desire to merge with Apple?
Except apple cant afford too. Samsung builds products from ships to phones and it pays well.
Judge orders Google to hand over search documents in Samsung patent case
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13...-over-search-documents-in-samsung-patent-case
"The court cannot help but note the irony that Google, a pioneer in searching the Internet, is arguing that it would be unduly burdened by producing a list of how it searched its own files"
LOL!
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13...-over-search-documents-in-samsung-patent-case
"The court cannot help but note the irony that Google, a pioneer in searching the Internet, is arguing that it would be unduly burdened by producing a list of how it searched its own files"
LOL!
The negotiations and the rumors surrounding the started about a year before the iPhone was released maybe before that. They should just move forward with this now.
http://www.dbms2.com/2007/04/01/oracle-google-apple-merger-possibilities/
"UPDATE: some people didnt get that this entire post was an April Fools joke. Sorry for being too realistic."
Try again
It makes no difference in this case, the information is supposedly openly available no? Or the search terms would be useless.
The information asked by Apple is nit open documentation, it is emails, internal reports, etc.
It's openly available to Apple as part of the pretrial information sharing, the issue here is that Google may be withholding information by selectively cherry pick what documentation is given. Of course, Google could prove that it isn't by exposing the search terms.
Look, you first said that Android source is open, next that the information is open and now that Google is involved.
Please, stop talking about you don't know.
The information is not open, it has nothing to do with Android source code and Google is not a ducking part in the trial, because of that they didn't want to give the information.
Got it?
Are you telling me that Google hasn't given up any information as part of the information sharing? And that this is not only related to what search terms they used when sharing that information, even though that is the entire premise of the article?
Sorry cauliflower fingers, this was actually reported in several tech journals around the same time period.
This was the first time the whale almost surfaced:
http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/1983953/oracle-apple-announce-merger
Now that I remember it was well before the iPhone was released and the rumors reached a fever pitch online after a Google representative intimated (at a WWDC, talking about improvements in Maps, I think) that it would be a great thing if Apple and Google just merged, he even suggested the cheesy name "Goo-apple" or something like that. It wouldn't shock me if more than a few people remember this.
Considering it was probably somewhere between 1999-2006 I think most of the web journals that would have carried the story are probably long since gone.
I would be very surprised of a rumor about Google and Apple merger on 1997.
When you can find anything that is not a joke or a time travel link it
Never has been any serious rumor of a merge between Apple and Google