Note to reporters: Don't f--- with Google

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Google might come off as nice and cuddly, but it can be pretty ruthless in managing the information that leaves the Googleplex. It already axed an employee who blogged about his work there, and now it seems to be going after media it feels have misbehaved. In a fluff story late last week based off Google’s cheery press release about looking for two new executive chefs, CNET revealed that Google has put it in a press penalty box until July 2006 and won’t talk to reporters from the widely-read tech publication.

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