Google this: I'm back!

Mark Jen's blog is back online. For the record, he claims Google didn't ask him to remove any sensitive info but that he simply "goofed" by putting some stuff up on his blog that wasn't supposed to be there in the first place.

Fair enough but the "before" and "after" versions of his blog don't jibe anymore. The earlier version of his blog contained the following plum post (pardon the punctuation errors but I quote verbatim):

"they started off the day with a financials presentation, which was actually quite interesting. of course, i understand that they obviously will put a positive spin on everything, but the weight of the raw numbers is undeniable. both google's profits and revenue are growing at an unprecedented rate even while they are increasing their expenditures on capital and human resources. not to mention that google has been primarily focused on the u.s. market and is now turning their full attention to the global marketplace."

With Google about to report its quarterly earnings, that's the kind of insider info that sets hearts palpitating on Wall Street. (BTW, Google's shares soared more than 12 bucks today.) I'm sure the paragraph already was copied, pasted and e-mailed thousands of times. Deleting it from the reposted blog makes no sense. Dude, it's the Web: NOTHING disappears. Did somebody strong-arm Jen or did he simply censor himself? Either way, it's further evidence that for all its pretension, Google is turning out to be just another corporate entity.