Talk about a power lunch ...(News)(Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin )

Advertising Age, October, 2007 by klaassen, abbey

Byline: abbey klaassen

Very much the picture of casual Silicon Valley icons in jeans, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were alternatively grave and light-hearted as they met with a group of reporters-an unusual event to say the least-over a meal during Zeitgeist. The table talk ranged from discussions of privacy and ecology to Mr. Page occasionally jumping in to josh his co-founder about his parking abilities and his recent move to reduce the snack consumption at Google.

The pair's take on the important privacy issues tended toward reputation management and libel concerns rather than the data-collection concerns many consumer-privacy advocates emphasize. They talked about concerns that websites might publish untrue things about people and the...

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