Paul
A. Mitchell, B.A., M.S. said...
From: [snip]
Date: Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:12 AM
Subject: AGO Complaint
To: mrfsys@gmail.com
Paul,
Thank you for submitting a complaint to the Office of the Attorney General on
2/11/2010.
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Explanation of complaint:
On or about September 25, 2008, Google, Inc. published on the Internet an
evidently bona fide offer of $10 Million, which "will be distributed
evenly among the winners" of the best ideas submitted to Google's Project
10^100: http://www.project10tothe100.com/index.html From Spokane I submitted
this idea: "worldwide adoption of the goal and committing all resources
necessary to realize 1 Gigabit Internet access everywhere on planet
Earth." In question to the question: "What initial steps are required
to get this idea off the ground?" I replied: "A Policy Proposal
circulated widely to IT and government sectors, with a strong PR budget to
commence aggressive advocacy of this idea." Yesterday, Google announced
plans that implement this idea almost to the letter:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-our-experimental.html
However, Google staff are now saying that
"winners" will not receive ANY money, only "good karma",
and that the funds offered will be distributed ONLY to organizations, NOT to
individuals who submitted winning ideas. This change strongly suggests false
advertising, bad faith and also fraud by Google's management, for having widely
distributed this exact language in their original Offer: "... [T]he $10
million will be distributed evenly among the winners."
Expected resolution details: pay the award to submitter of a "winning
idea" now being implemented by Google
What do you think the business should do to resolve your complaint:
ORT
E-mail Notifications: Yes
Disclosure Notices: Yes
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Sincerely,
Rob McKenna and the AGO staff
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