Many in the radio industry are determined to keep Google at arm’s length, suspicious that its technology-based approach will turn their business into a commodity and take away the relationships with advertisers that stations have spent years building.

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One can hope.

Incidentally, I’ve seen enough of the Google ad beast in my sidebar. AdWords was spewing religious things for reasons unknown.  What in this blog would possibly make someone run an ad about religion here?

Yes, I have an example so odious it called for a double negative in the post title. As you know, in addition to amassing more data than the NSA on each and every current, former, and possibly future global citizen, Google is trying to make itself the default operating system for advertising.

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Google wanted to update an application on the Fredberry. Good googly moogly, they’re a chatty bunch.

Yipes, again.

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Yipes.

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I felt the new tune Message from Mountain View needed video, and after slapping one together, I still feel the same way. But here’s what I have so far. If you want to make a better one, knock yourself out.

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