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Re: Google Data centers

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Post by bsirkia »

Very cool. I think it would have been better to have the name of the tech//person/place on the thumbnail on hover, I would like just be able to hover across all the thumbnails and see some info about each one.

Re: Google Data centers

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Post by miu9089 »

Hmm... no mention here of how NSA are granted direct access to Google data. The website must need updating.

A shiny website can't gloss over Google's close collusion with the NSA as revealed by The Guardian. Their desperate PR attempts will backfire until they make public and clear statements to improve their transparency.

Re: Google Data centers

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Post by alphakappa »

These are beautiful pictures, but it was hard to navigate. 'Go Inside' for example, would dump in the middle of a gallery of images, making me think that I had missed the thumbnails at the beginning. Having a button in the middle of these images was also weird (as is having to click something just to see what the images are about. There's plenty of screen real-estate to show the image caption). Also strange is that the captions were cut off in the middle of some not-so-long sentences. Another click to show the remainder of a sentence.

I'm sure this looked very pretty as a design, but the usability is poor.

Re: Google Data centers

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Post by melling »

miu9089 wrote: post #6
yogo wrote: post #5

The area where meth is cooked looks nice http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/images/_2000... :)

How endearing. Are you aware of recent reports in the news? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-... Please think twice before using a Google service.

It looks like he has been on HN for 2 years so I would conclude that he has heard the news, and quit wasting people's time.

Re: Google Data centers

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Post by ceejayoz »

miu9089 wrote: post #6
yogo wrote: post #5

The area where meth is cooked looks nice http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/images/_2000... :)

How endearing. Are you aware of recent reports in the news? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-... Please think twice before using a Google service.

I'm reasonably certain everyone on HN is aware of these particular "recent reports in the news".

Re: Google Data centers

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Post by SmileyKeith »

miu9089 wrote: post #4

Hmm... no mention here of how NSA are granted direct access to Google data. The website must need updating. A shiny website can't gloss over Google's close collusion with the NSA as revealed by The Guardian. Their desperate PR attempts will backfire until they make public and clear statements to improve their transparency.

What is this odd form of spam?
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