Posted by: Fester

The post I’m about to direct you to may be the best post EVER on the internet.

Really.

This one short little entry by Jamie at channel9.msdn.com sums up everything I’ve been trying to say here for the past six months, and answers the question “Is Google Evil?” with a true and concise representation of what is really going on over at the GooglePlex, …through ‘GooglePark’.

See the funniest cartoon ever, in full, here:
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=104073.

Thank you Jamie.

I love you.

Forever,

Fester

Posted by: FESTER

[ link to Part 1 ]

Dammit! They did it again.

In an attempt NOT to be evil, Godgle has gone out and tried to be GOD again (or Big-Brother at least!). Yes, it seems they are totally disregarding over 100 years of copyright law - and making their own new law that suites their needs.

Here’s an excerpt from Brad Hill:

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Posted by: Fester

Well, I’ve been saying it would happen for about a year now, and the time has finally arrived… Yahoo, MSN and more are finally getting into offering website publishers the opportunity to display revenue generating ads that are brokered by these giants. This is in direct competition with the Google AdSense program, and will help to benefit small website publishers as well as large…

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Posted by: Fester

Well, given the sensitivity of the topic we write about here, I guess we are bound to get it from all sides.

When I read well established bloggers talking about ‘Google Alarmism’, I can’t help but think of what thier motive must be, or that they must just downright thoughtless about ‘the bigger picture’ (great article).
And I’m not just picking on Google here - I’m raising a bigger question…

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Posted by: Chester

I don’t know much about evil, save for my wife’s uncle the Baptist minister, but if you ask me Google seems ok. I use it all the time for all sorts of really cool things and so does my wife and she certainly does not want to know bad news about Google being an evil Big Brother type of thing. She thinks I’m crazy for even considering such notions about such a charming and helpful online pal like Google …

Though it is odd how much time, energy and technology Google puts into ‘watching’ us surf and tracking our every online move. I mean why does Google need that info?

Does it help me directly find cheap+hotel+San Jose? No.

Does this behaviour help Google create a better user experience? Perhaps.

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Posted by: Fester

Yeah, that’s right! I said it - “Peeping in on your finances”.

Does the new Google Currency Converter actually peer into your financial ongoings?

Probably not - yet…

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Posted by: Fester

It was announced last week that Google was releasing thier toolbar for Firefox.

While there is much praise over the many features the new toolbar offers, I can’t help but feel sorry for those people who have been surfing using Firefox - relatively unwatched by Big G - and now that they’re installing the toolbar, they’re under Big Bother’s all-seeing eye.

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Posted by: Fester

There’s been a bit of hub-ub about Google infringing on copyrights lately, and you know I’ll be offering something about it soon…

Well, in an effort to bring you some top quality original content (here’s a great forum post by a bunch of i-marketing gurus, about why affiliate sites need original content) it seems WE - the Untouchables - have gone and done it even worse…

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When I have more time - I’ll write about this…

http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3517316

This should be a good one. I can feel my temperature rising already.

Well, as you can see from the excerpts from this eweek.com article below, the powers that be at Google insist that they’re doing something “new” with thier recent offering of a personalized Google home page. This type of rhetoric from the power pawns makes me cringe with disgust, like when you catch a girlfriend who’s cheated - who lies to you to ’save you the pain’. I HATE when that happens.

Adding arms to the Google vs. MSN vs. Yahoo battle, it seems that Google’s ‘new’ thing is just a few years late. What they’ve come up with in thier ‘released earlier than anticipated’ version is just lame. In fact, it made me go get a MyYahoo home page - really (I kinda like this RSS aggregator thing!). Unless Google can come up with a way to add some really CRAZY new features, there’ll be nothing new my friends - except for the order of the words in which they feed you the marketing crap that the machine that is Google was created to mine your personal websurfing habits - and thus personality - so they can pass the information onto the government to try to control your brain so they can oppress you into doing what they want and believing what they want you to believe. - but that’s just my opinion.

Here’s the excerpts:

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