Penn students have their fingers crossed that the clouds won’t break Monday morning.
“The temp sounds perfect, but please no rain!” said one tweet.
At least, that’s one impression left by a student on an official Twitter account dedicated to the University of Pennsylvania’s 253rd Commencement ceremony where Google CEO Eric Schmidt is scheduled to speak.
Technically Philly would love to peak at Schmidt’s prepared speech, as Google has been the center of allegations that it has a monopoly on Internet search and advertising. We’re especially interested since the Obama administration took a harder stance on monopolies when it peeled back a Bush-era antitrust policy, the Inquirer reported on Tuesday. The Wall Street Journal noted yesterday that Google may be unstoppable.
Still, it’s hard to argue that the company isn’t innovative. Just yesterday it unveiled a host of new search features. Not to mention that a few hours of Google down time sent the Twitter-verse screaming in protest.
As news-gatherers, and not news commentators, that’s where the conversation ends for Technically Philly. Instead, we pose a question to you, our readers.
If you happen to run into Schmidt – albeit with great surprise – on the Blue Line on Monday, what would you ask him?
Will GMail ever be out of beta? Have you ever rode the official Google zip line into the office? Or maybe you would ask a more hard-hitting question about those monopoly allegations. Maybe something completely off the charts.
What would you ask? We’d love to hear about it in our comments.
If you spot Google’s CEO on the Blue Line Monday, what would you ask him?
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I think I’d ask him if he feels threathened by Twitter. Now that Twitter is garnering a massive amount of real time data every day and is making it searchable it is destined to take some of Googles Market share. I’m under the impression Google is pretty familiar with Twitter’s founders since they sold Blogger to them. Are they not worried because Google is where Twitter’s VC funding is utiltimately coming from?
I’d ask him why he’s taking the worst subway system in all of America and how afraid he is of getting robbed. With all that money he’s worth, shouldn’t he be in a limo?
Worst subway system in the country? Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Boston? All those cities that don’t have one? Oh, like where Eric Schmidt comes from… Speaking of which, ask him about how Google will factor into mass transit and other environmental movements.
I like how you compare a terrible mass transit system to cities that don’t have them. That’s a pretty good 1:1 comparison. Or, ya know, completely illogical.
My entire Senior year of college I had a Google Frisbee hanging on my wall. I never got to use it because I don’t think any of my friends liked Frisbee. Regardless my apartment received a great amount of traffic that year. I was wondering if Google Ad sense applies outside of the web? Times are tough.
What does he think of the soon to be prime time Wolfram|Alpha?