Google has delivered a vote of confidence in Brexit Britain by confirming it will establish a new headquarters in the UK, creating 3,000 news jobs investing and £1 billion in the UK economy. Chief executive Sundar Pichai tells the BBC:
“The UK has been a tremendous market for us. We see big opportunities here. This is a big commitment from us – we have some of the best talent in the world in the UK and to be able to build great products from here sets us up well for the long term.”
Remain supporting media are already reporting this is “despite Brexit”…
“How to leave the Labour party” is the top trending question in the UK ahead of the #LabourPartyConference pic.twitter.com/sZjcjmd5tY
— GoogleTrends (@GoogleTrends) September 23, 2016
See you in Liverpool!
Last week Guido noted that Downing Street was running adverts with a value of £135,000-a-week promoting Remain on gov.uk. Co-conspirators also report that if you Google “European referendum”, as many voters looking to make up their minds will do in the coming weeks, the government has bought the top result, sending users to their pro-Remain site. Links like these cost the taxpayer around 62 pence per click…
In his judgement Lord Justice Jackson effectively ruled that injunctions cannot remain in place once knowledge of the injucted information is widespread:
“The court should not make orders which are ineffective. It is inappropriate – some may used a stronger term – for the court to ban people from saying that which is common knowledge… Knowledge of the relevant matters is now so widespread that confidentiality has probably been lost”
Google search trends show that searches for “David Furnish” in the UK have increased to a trend score of 100 in the last few days, the maximum possible score relative to previous searches for his name:
Searches for “Daniel Laurence”, the man who claims he had an olive oil paddling pool threesome with Furnish, have also increased to a score of 100:
This data shows just those who already knew to search those specific names. Several times as many people will have discovered the identities simply by searching “celebrity injunction”:
Carter Ruck’s attempts to threaten Google into taking down search results revealing the identities failed completely. As Lord Justice Jackson says, knowledge has become widespread…
Google have answered the prayers of bored office workers across the land with the launch of “fun facts”. Search for “I’m feeling curious” or “fun facts” and an answer box will appear at the top of your search results with a random question and its answer. Techno’s highlights so far include learning that sharks can’t swim backwards and that it’s not illegal to lie on the news.
If you get bored you can always do a barrel roll…
Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, was pictured at the wedding between tech socialite Alexandra Chong and Jack Brockway on Saturday with a new woman on his arm. Techno believes the woman is Nicole Shanahan, the founder and CEO of patent management company ClearAccessIP.
Brin is notorious for his complicated love life, recently leaving his wife, genetic-testing entrepreneur Anne Wojcicki following an affair with Google Glass marketing manager Amanda Rosenberg. The affair had ramifications throughout Google, reportedly ruining his relationship with fellow Google co-founder and long time friend Larry Page. Guess he’s feeling lucky this time…
