Originally posted by SimonMac
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An agent preaching on morals?
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They also have repeated form for taking over important cultural data and then neglecting it and running it into the ground, for example DejaNews and the usenet archive.
Even Google book scans have been criticised for (among other things) making a pudding of folded pages such as maps in old books. Apparently the scanning workers were just told to ignore those or scan blank pages, and I doubt there's any plan to remedy the results.Leave a comment:
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Dont do evil
I have a rule. As soon as someone makes a statement such as Googl'e "Don't do evil" it is to hide the opposite. Job titles that involve the word "talent" annoy me. Not only are they designed to make the job holders feel important about themselves (I only deal with talented people) but they lower the true meaning of the word talent. The "ministry of justice" or "ministry of truth" are examples of what I mean.
So is it about time we ducked out of Google before we become part of an Orwellian world controlled by little hitlers who send video vans around the world to show everyone what type of house we live in?
Google World Domination
My original prediction:
Posted by Urgo at December 16, 2004 11:31 PM
For the past year now I've been predicting that within the next ten Google will 'take over the world'. Most people I tell this two think I'm crazy and this will never happen saying that Google is the best company ever and they will never turn evil. I tend to disagree.
Let me take just a few minutes to explain why I think this, and then at the bottom of this entry is a link to a flash video I found today with someone else thinking the same thing.
Facts - Google owns:
- Google is the most used search engine
- Gmail, while maybe not the most used email provider (maybe it is now?) it is definitely the most highly desired
- Orkut, while mostly blown over now is still a thriving social network site
- Google News is viewed as a #1 news site for many people
- Blogger is one of the leading blog sites and blogs are all over the news these days
- Keyhole offers a satalite imageing service
- Google Desktop Search
- Google Adsense - probably the most widly used advertising on the web these days (used even on this website although I haven't seen any return yet)
- And much much more, plus all the things normal people like myself have come up with such as the random google image in the right sidebar.
Should we not whilst we are at it also be pulling the plug on big powerful global businesses that prevent the likes of myself
from starting a bank, an insurance company, a hospital, a power station or even a shop (by supporting and encouraging EU red tape bureaucracy)
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