Google Losing Steam

American Voices

March 2, 2006 | ISSUE 42•09

Google recently suffered a 13% percent drop in stock price, the sharpest drop in the history of the company. What do you think?

I foresaw the company's imminent collapse when I searched for 'Dakota Fanning nude' and only got 673 hits.

Greg O’Neill
Receptionist
Maybe if they didn't spend all their money revamping the logo for every obscure holiday, they wouldn't be in this mess.

Bob Nouveau
Jewelers Apprentice
This surely proves what I’ve been saying all along about the Internet being a passing fad.

Kate Carolan
Seamstress

U.S. Census Overcounted By 36,000

05.24.12 | ISSUE 48•21

A survey revealed that the 2010 census counted an extra 36,000 people, or 0.01 percent, because of duplicate forms and deaths, which is down from the 0.49 percent overcount in the 2000 census.
Egypt Holds First Presidential Elections

05.23.12 | ISSUE 48•21

Fifteen months after Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak was deposed, Egyptians voted in their first-ever free presidential elections.
Catholic Orgs Sue Over Birth-Control Rule

05.23.12 | ISSUE 48•21

Several Catholic institutions, including Notre Dame, are suing the federal government over the Obama administration’s birth control funding mandate.
Posthumously-Conceived Children Get No Benefits

05.22.12 | ISSUE 48•21

The Supreme Court ruled that a set of twins conceived with frozen sperm through in vitro fertilization 18 months after the father's death are not eligible for Social Security survivor benefits.
Karzai Thanks U.S. Taxpayers For Covering Cost Of War

05.22.12 | ISSUE 48•21

In an address given during the NATO summit in Chicago, Afghan president Hamid Karzai thanked the people of the United States for bearing the cost of the war.