Google turning Evil?

[boiboi]

Just copied this from another forum:

Google was angered by a story last month that focused on potential threats the search engine leader's product poses to personal privacy, said Jai Singh, the News.com editor-in-chief.

To demonstrate the point, writer Elinor Mills googled CEO Eric E. Schmidt.

In her story, Mills included a link to Schmidt's home address, his net worth of $1.5 billion and noted that he has attended the Burning Man art festival and is an amateur pilot. Mills said she spent 30 minutes on Google to obtain the information.

"We didn't go out and break into any databases to get this information," Singh said. "This is all publicly available information."

Mills wrote in her story that "hackers, zealous government investigators, or even a Google insider who falls short of the company's ethics standards could abuse that information."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050808/...te/google_cnet

Why Europeans dislike Google

"The world according to Google? Europeans have long bemoaned the influence of Hollywood movies on their culture. Now plans by Google Inc. to create a massive digital library have triggered such strong fears in Europe about Anglo-American cultural dominance that one critic is warning of a "unilateral command of the thought of the world."

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/20...-project_x.htm


In my opinion, it's not just the culture of the Europeans Google is trying to influence, but also the minds of people in the U.S. Google is politically biased. For example, they think guns are bad so gun lobbyist websites don't appear in their search results. However, porns are ok. Also Google folks are fanatical, just like Mills said. Type 'failure" on Google and see what comes up.

What comes up is the Biography of President George W. Bush

Even if you agree with Google, or you just think they're plain funny, the French people are right. It's not just the Californication of the world or abuse of power, its their blatant disregard for culture and the assault on free- thinking. Just because they're cool like Apple it doesn't mean they're good.

If you're using Google for school research, you're basically not getting the broader deal.

I still use Yahoo (a vertical search engine), and if I want a more specific search result, I use Askjeeves or MSN search!

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What do you guys think? I think MSN has a long way to go. Hehe.

[Boofo]

I never knew that. I always have used Google for research on anything. And I have never had it disappoint me. Until now, that is.

[BigIke]

I've always used google and will continue to use google. Even though I am a conservative, it doesn't really bother me that George W. pops up if you type in "failure". Countless times I've done research on their search engine and gotten exactly what I need.

[AN-net]

corporate conspiracy, what a surprise>_> i guess its not possible that ppl link the word failure to george w. bush. i guess its not possible:P because he is such a success(i just started campaigning that page for the keyword success). so yeah nothing new here except conspiracy and of course the first article is common sense, post something on the internet then everyone else can find it. lesson to learn is not post something on the internet if you do not want others to know about it.

edit:
if you search link:http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html on google you will find multiple sites linking to page under the keyword 'miserable failure' or 'failure'.

also try the keyword search for 'miserable failure' on yahoo or other search engines that you claims is not bias>_> they almost always return the same page as google does. also msn search must be biased because if you type in 'failure' it brings up that exact page. i hate when ppl who write threads do not do thorough research.

[Logikos]

AN-net, I just checked the same thing.

The word failure
Yahoo: #3
Google: #1
MSN: #1
AltaVista: #2
AskJeeves: Couldn't Find it

Guess every but askjeeves is in conspiracy

[Chris M]

No - AskJeeves was paid by the US Government to remove the 1 million plus results it used to be home to

Satan

[boiboi]

I guess europeans are paranoid ey?

[Revan]

We aren't paranoid. They are really after us. No, seriously. They are.

[boiboi]

We're off topic read the USA today article before you post and pat yourself in the back.

[Revan]

You don't know what irony is, do you :P