Google - the other PR problem

No, not PR as in page rank, PR as in public relations. Or to be specific, public relations disaster in the making.

News.com Googled Google CEO Eric Schmidt: http://news.com.com/Google+balances+privacy%2C+reach/2100-1032_3-5787483.html

"...spending 30 minutes on the Google search engine lets one discover that Schmidt, 50, was worth an estimated $1.5 billion last year. Earlier this year, he pulled in almost $90 million from sales of Google stock and made at least another $50 million selling shares in the past two months as the stock leaped to more than $300 a share. He and his wife Wendy live in the affluent town of Atherton, Calif., where, at a $10,000-a-plate political fund-raiser five years ago, presidential candidate Al Gore and his wife Tipper danced as Elton John belted out "Bennie and the Jets." Schmidt has also roamed the desert at the Burning Man art festival in Nevada, and is an avid amateur pilot."

Very cool bit of web journalism. Unfortunately, Google didn't think so. In fact, Google spat the dummy out, big time: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,68486,00.html