Don't Trust Google (2002)
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Don't Trust Google (2002)
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Re: Don't Trust Google (2002)
#2And 14 years later there still "is no evidence or even reason to suspect that Google is not being an honest broker. The searches give good results, the rankings seem fair, the service remains free, and we haven’t heard of anyone being arrested for running a dodgy query."
So while the author is right about potential dangers mentioned in the penultimate paragraph, it's been more than a decade and those fears haven't really materialized. The article sounds exactly like things that are being said in anti-Google threads in 2014.
Re: Don't Trust Google (2002)
#3Seems like recently these anti-Google posts are being dredged up at a noticeable rate. Is there a reason behind it or is all just ad hoc?
For instance I wonder how OP stumbled about the link.
Re: Don't Trust Google (2002)
#4And 14 years later there still "is no evidence or even reason to suspect that Google is not being an honest broker. The searches give good results, the rankings seem fair, the service remains free, and we haven’t heard of anyone being arrested for running a dodgy query." So while the author is right about potential dangers mentioned in the penultimate paragraph, it's been more than a decade and those fears haven't re…
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe there's been more than a few people arrested in-part based on their google queries, some of them wrongly and some of them rightly so.
Re: Don't Trust Google (2002)
#5And 14 years later there still "is no evidence or even reason to suspect that Google is not being an honest broker. The searches give good results, the rankings seem fair, the service remains free, and we haven’t heard of anyone being arrested for running a dodgy query." So while the author is right about potential dangers mentioned in the penultimate paragraph, it's been more than a decade and those fears haven't re…
Uhmmm, nearly everything he described became a reality. Personalized search results, mass data gathering, filtering / censorship of results, the growth of Google to megalithic proportions ('next Microsoft'), etc.
Re: Don't Trust Google (2002)
#6And 14 years later there still "is no evidence or even reason to suspect that Google is not being an honest broker. The searches give good results, the rankings seem fair, the service remains free, and we haven’t heard of anyone being arrested for running a dodgy query." So while the author is right about potential dangers mentioned in the penultimate paragraph, it's been more than a decade and those fears haven't re…
Perhaps not yet but they have amassed all the data the author describes and much more.
For example, I just drove half way across the UK. Google knows that because I was using Google maps.
I stopped at Pizza Hut. Google knows that.
I stopped at a BP garage. Google knows that.
I searched for houses in an area in the UK via right move. Google knows that because the embedded map knows my Google cookie...
And so forth...
Now I'm not saying they have done any evil but perhaps it's fair to consider that the past doesn't always hold true in the future and by then you've already hung yourself.
Edit: why down vote facts? Someone work at Google?
Re: Don't Trust Google (2002)
#7And 14 years later there still "is no evidence or even reason to suspect that Google is not being an honest broker. The searches give good results, the rankings seem fair, the service remains free, and we haven’t heard of anyone being arrested for running a dodgy query." So while the author is right about potential dangers mentioned in the penultimate paragraph, it's been more than a decade and those fears haven't re…
The evilness has been materialized, you just dont want to acknowledge it - Occupy Wallstreet was effectively dismantled, one of the biggest protest movements in modern time as well as Tea Party. The biggest thefts in history went by, quite efficiently put down - and you think that the NSA, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple were not complecent in those events? That the big data aboundant about the people was not used against them?
Who knows whom, where they go, what they read, what theyre interested in, what they search for, what they say to each other. A good college CompSci student with that data could pick out the troublemakers/leaders.
Re: Don't Trust Google (2002)
#8Seems like recently these anti-Google posts are being dredged up at a noticeable rate. Is there a reason behind it or is all just ad hoc? For instance I wonder how OP stumbled about the link.
Thanks to Google these links and many others are kept down under the rug.
Re: Don't Trust Google (2002)
#9Seems like recently these anti-Google posts are being dredged up at a noticeable rate. Is there a reason behind it or is all just ad hoc? For instance I wonder how OP stumbled about the link.
It's at the forefront of people's minds at the moment so it is written and posted about frequently and people are interesed in historical articles as a baseline.
It's good that we're thinking like this. It's simply critical thinking.
Re: Don't Trust Google (2002)
#10Seems like recently these anti-Google posts are being dredged up at a noticeable rate. Is there a reason behind it or is all just ad hoc? For instance I wonder how OP stumbled about the link.
Thanks to Google these links and many others are kept down under the rug.
Are they? On what do you base that claim?