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Reminds me of a classic blog post... by azcoyote · 2018-06-04 08:28 · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Acquires GitHub For $7.5B (microsoft.com)

What if Gmail had been designed by Microsoft?

Similar to the Page Rank 100 incident by xmas2003 · 2015-06-03 10:48 · Score: 1 · on Egyptian Repairman Outranks Google

Maybe his page was assigned a Page Rank of 100 per this story from a decade ago - the scale is (usually) 0-10.

Re:I'm not doing that anymore by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-21 16:07 · Score: 0 · on Ask Slashdot: How To Unblock Email From My Comcast-Hosted Server?

Google doesn't make money processing your emails for marketing information?

Independently arriving at "Scroogled" by tepples · 2013-03-21 08:23 · Score: 1 · on Google Keep Labelled "Delete"

The additional L required to typo "Scroogle" from "Scrooge" is clear on the other side of a QWERTY keyboard

That's not what I was trying to imply. One could have arrived at "Google is acting like Scrooge" pun independently from Microsoft's ad campaign that began in November 2012. I just checked Google Search (Search tools > Any time > Custom range) for January 2008 through October 2012, and there were plenty of hits for "Scroogled". Is a short story by Cory Doctorow enough?

Re:If it was my company by ron_ivi · 2012-11-12 13:17 · Score: 0 · on $200,000 Judgement Against Google In Mokbel Shots Case

don't seem to understand the difference between a search engine that indexes the internet and the original site that hosted the material.

Slippery slope, though. Google decided they want to add the ability to censor content. For one example, back when they wanted to do business in china, google.cn was able to spin results the way that government wants ( http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-06-04-n13.html )). No doubt they do similar censorship for other regionally outlawed content too.

Once they add such censorship features, they're not really a content-neutral search engine anymore.

Scroogled: Obligatory Cory Doctorow Story by cowtamer · 2012-07-07 09:05 · Score: 1 · on British Airways Plans To Google Passengers

Read Scroogled by Cory Doctorow for a treatment of how this might go...

Re:Well deserved by zakkudo · 2012-05-21 06:25 · Score: 0 · on Google Chrome Becomes World's No. 1 Browser

I've always thought that chrome looks remarkably a lot like Safari with its interface elements... including the lack of a menu. There are a lot of Safari overtones. Then again, since I haven't used Safari in a good long while it might actually be Apple copying from Chrome now.

Below are pictures of Safari 5 VS Chrome.

http://www.maximumpc.com/files/u69/Safari_5.jpg
http://blogoscoped.com/files/google-chrome-screenshot.jpg

In all honestly, (some people may not agree) I can't help feel that the lack of a normal menu in Chrome was a lucky mistake rather than a calculated move when working with the old Webkit code.

What did Brandt do to upset the ED people? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-22 05:33 · Score: 0 · on Privacy-Centric Search Engine Scroogle Shuts Down

"I would like to know just what he did to upset the ED people though", 1s44c

Chip Berlet, SlimVirgin, and Wikipedia

Wikipedia's Hive Mind

Daniel Brandt on the Wikipedia Issue

Wikipedia and the Intelligence Services

Re:Again and again by sootman · 2011-12-16 06:01 · Score: 1 · on Google Deal Allegedly Lets UMG Wipe YouTube Videos It Doesn't Own

> It would be foolish to expect Google to stand up for you
> any more than their bottom line dictates

From Wikipedia:

"While the official corporate philosophy of Google does not contain the words "Don't be evil", they were included in the prospectus (aka "S-1") of Google's 2004 IPO (a letter from Google's founders, later called the "'Don't Be Evil' manifesto"): "Don't be evil. We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served -- as shareholders and in all other ways -- by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains." The sixth point of the 10-point corporate philosophy of Google says "You can make money without doing evil."

An image of their philosophy is here Their current page seems to have watered things down a bit--it only talks about not being deceptive with ads.

I'm not saying Google shouldn't be involved with protecting copyrights as they see fit, but giving a media company carte blanche to delete whatever content they want isn't the way to go.

Re:This is why I will never trust cloud services by i.r.id10t · 2011-12-05 05:37 · Score: 2 · on IT Pros Can't Resist Peeking At Privileged Info

You should read "Scroogled" by Cory Doctorow ... http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-09-17-n72.html

Re:It's only fair use if you go to court... by Anonymous Coward · 2011-10-24 16:09 · Score: 0 · on Universal Uses DMCA To Get Bad Lip Reading Parody Taken Down

I can only assume you're kidding, since Google has appeared virtually identical since 1997.

Re:Fail. by stuckinphp · 2010-09-25 12:15 · Score: 0 · on DuckDuckGo Search Engine Erects Tor Hidden Service

It's only a security threat if you can't trust the site that the programs are originating from. Sure, this search engine *may* be able to dump a tracking code into their output and therefore break the TOR privacy[1], but you have to ask how likely to happen is this? And my answer: very unlikely.

Please. If you do not understand the fucking problem. Do the world a favor and shut the fuck up.

http://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-17/dc-17-presentations/defcon-17-gregory_fleischer-attacking_tor.pdf
http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20060704/cross-site-scripting-vulnerability-in-google/
http://www.xssed.com/news/41/A_new_critical_Google_XSS_vulnerability_promptly_corrected/
http://shiflett.org/blog/2005/dec/googles-xss-vulnerability
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-09-28-n28.html
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Google-fixes-cross-site-scripting-vulnerability-in-YouTube-comments-1032988.html
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/orkut-attacked-by-bom-sabado-worm/131714-11.html
http://www.geek-news.net/2010/09/twitter-hit-with-major-xss-hack.html
http://lynnepope.net/twitter-xss-attacks
http://nemesis.te-home.net/News/20090407_Metasploit_Decloaking_Engine_and_TOR.html
http://securityandthe.net/2008/12/23/finding-a-hidden-ip-address-just-got-easier/

One Step Closer by Russianspi · 2010-06-26 04:10 · Score: 2, Interesting · on White House Unveils Plans For "Trusted Identities In Cyberspace"

I almost checked the "Post Anonymously" button on principle, but the difference is that I can choose what part of my identity to share with Slashdot. I just finished reading How to Access the Internet, A Guide from 2015 when I flipped to Slashdot and saw this article. Here's the first step. Creepy.

Re:what about having people onsite? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-03-08 05:20 · Score: 0 · on When the Power Goes Out At Google

Google doesn't use traditional data centers. They build theirs out of modules constructed from shipping containers. cf. Google Data Center Video, data center secrets revealed.

So, remote monitoring, and then someone goes to check the module the alarm came from. They may have to walk 100 meters to get to the module, though.

Can't have a church without a bible by Kitkoan · 2010-02-09 18:40 · Score: 1 · on The Church of Google

http://blogoscoped.com/bible/

Re:Like Father Like Son by blind+biker · 2010-01-28 02:58 · Score: 3, Informative · on Behind Google's Recent Decision About China

They didn't cash in - from what I understand, they filed a notice with the SEC (per one of the Insider Trading Sanctions Acts), just in case if they want to cash in a larger part of their securities.

That said, yes, Brin seems a nice guy through and through

German Goverment warned and about Chrome in 2008 by Max_W · 2010-01-16 21:35 · Score: 1 · on German Government Advises Public To Stop Using IE

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-07-n33.html (September 2008)

It doesn't get any more "official" than this here. Yesterday, Saturday at around 20:07, Germany's oldest and perhaps biggest prime time news "Tagesschau" announced the following under the headline "Warning against internet browser":

"The Federal Office for Information Security warned internet users of the new browser Chrome. The application by the company Google should not be used for surfing the internet, as a spokesperson for the office told the "Berliner Zeitung"...

Netflix didn't just anonymize the data by eggspurt · 2009-12-18 11:17 · Score: 1 · on Netflix Sued For Privacy Invasion

Via http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2009/12/privacy_vs_know.html:

I'm not sure whether the litigators have read this particular section of the Netflix prize rules:

To prevent certain inferences being drawn about the Netflix customer base, some of the rating data for some customers in the training and qualifying sets have been deliberately perturbed in one or more of the following ways: deleting ratings; inserting alternative ratings and dates; and modifying rating dates.

So yes, you can match a set of reviews with someone else, but how will you know that it's really a person and not a random coincidence? 0.5 million review traces give plenty of opportunity for a false positive match. Netflix learned from AOL's data release disaster, which resulted in a few people getting fired.

Re:Exactly by Brass+Cannon · 2009-10-01 10:47 · Score: 1, Insightful · on Americans Don't Want Targeted Ads

Ha. Put your tinfoil hat on and read Scroogled http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-09-17-n72.html. This pretty much sums up what we 86% are worried about I think.

Re:Lack of standards. by UnknownSoldier · 2009-09-13 02:35 · Score: 1 · on eBay Denies New Design Is Broken, Blames Users

This example, while funny, perfectly demonstrates that marketing just doesn't have a fucking clue...

* And Yahoo wonders how Google beat them

* History of Yahoo Home Page
History of Google Home Page

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Quantity != Quality. Proof: McDonalds ®, WoW ®, TV

Re:Why Do They Ignore Their Own Advice? by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · 2009-06-24 02:49 · Score: 1 · on Google To Promote Web Speed On New Dev Site

It appears that google is already doing some of that, which is understandable(given how many times a day the main google.com page gets loaded, cutting a few bytes out probably saves more bandwidth than many companies use).

WOO by db32 · 2009-06-19 09:23 · Score: 1 · on Google Voice Grabs 1 Million Phone Numbers

I am so happy! I can have Google Email, Google Android, and Google Voice, Google Docs, and Google Search! Maybe we can have Google Credit and Google Medical soon so Google can have ALL of my information at a touch of a button!

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-09-17-n72.html

Why is it that so many people cheer the arrival of the next Google service and then in the same breath mutter about privacy and invasive government. So what happens when the federal government owns 60% of Google? I mean...the last administration bought some banks and this one bought a car maker so none of that "it can't happen" bullshit.

Google Translation Center by jtolds · 2009-04-28 04:45 · Score: 2, Informative · on Crowd-Source Translation Software For Free Content?

This doesn't handle audio, nor does it seem to be up even, but this seems kind of like what you want:
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-08-04-n48.html

Nailing Google by droopy16 · 2008-12-01 17:11 · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Researchers Study "Cyberchondria"

not big fan Google myself, but something tells me this research has something (more likely: everything) to do with Google's "Google Health" service http://blogoscoped.com/files/google-health-login-large.png . I don't trust either monstrosity with my health, but usually results of MS studies that undermine competition are somewhat biased ;)

P.S. People who look for ways to prove they're sick will find those ways regardless of medium (nobody closed libraries... yet ).

Process-per-tab protects you from rogue JIT by Estanislao+Mart�nez · 2008-09-09 14:22 · Score: 4, Informative · on Why Mozilla Is Committed To Using Gecko

A thread per tab model does protect you from a rogue Javascript freezing the browser's UI, but it doesn't protect you from a poorly written plugin that does something stupid like dereference a NULL pointer.

Chrome's doing JIT compilation of Javascript. In this context, separating the broswer into multiple processes protects you from bugs in the JIT compiler that produce native code that makes memory access errors.

Re:Um, are you sure of that? by avanderveen · 2008-09-09 13:29 · Score: 1 · on Why Mozilla Is Committed To Using Gecko

Here's some clarification from the Google Chrome introductory comic: http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome/5

Basically, you will see an increase in memory usage early on using the browser, but over time the browser's usage will not bloat as much. So, for extended use Firefox/Gecko could use more memory than Chrome, but for short periods of browsing Firefox/Gecko will be more memory efficient.

Also (comic, p.4) it's using different processes, not threads.

Re:Um, are you sure of that? by avanderveen · 2008-09-09 13:29 · Score: 1 · on Why Mozilla Is Committed To Using Gecko

Here's some clarification from the Google Chrome introductory comic: http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome/5

Basically, you will see an increase in memory usage early on using the browser, but over time the browser's usage will not bloat as much. So, for extended use Firefox/Gecko could use more memory than Chrome, but for short periods of browsing Firefox/Gecko will be more memory efficient.

Also (comic, p.4) it's using different processes, not threads.

no, da vinci did by floatingrunner · 2008-09-08 07:31 · Score: 0 · on Apple Admits iPod Is From 1970s UK

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2005-08-29-n64.html Da Vinci invented it. ipodious

Missing bubble? by PhotoGuy · 2008-09-02 01:34 · Score: 1 · on Google Chrome, the Google Browser

How many other people, on Page 8, truly expected one more text bubble, "Flash, I'm looking at *you*..."

Re:Where's Belgium? by r_jensen11 · 2008-09-01 10:16 · Score: 1 · on Google Chrome, the Google Browser

On page 13, they have completed Hitler's dream. Germany seems to occupy Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland,most of Austria, Croatia, Slovenia and Hungary.

Weird because the rest of the chart seems pretty correct.
This must mean all of Google are Nazi's.

Not only that, but they've advanced from their V2's to V8. I think they've had to drink a lot in order to progress through stages V3-V7

Re:Very Interesting... by J0nne · 2008-09-01 07:33 · Score: 1 · on Google Chrome, the Google Browser

It's webkit. See page 12 of the comic.

Where's Belgium? by KasperMeerts · 2008-09-01 06:42 · Score: 5, Funny · on Google Chrome, the Google Browser

On page 13, they have completed Hitler's dream. Germany seems to occupy Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland,most of Austria, Croatia, Slovenia and Hungary.

Weird because the rest of the chart seems pretty correct.
This must mean all of Google are Nazi's.

We're famous!! by anaesthetica · 2008-09-01 06:12 · Score: 1 · on Google Chrome, the Google Browser

Slashdot makes an appearance on Page 22 of the comic. I guess they know which side of the bread they're buttered on over at Google.

The Firefox connection... by anaesthetica · 2008-09-01 06:10 · Score: 1 · on Google Chrome, the Google Browser

Ah! Look who shows up in the comic on Page 18--it's our old friend Ben Goodger from Netscape and Mozilla, former lead developer on Firefox.

Designing browser as if it were an OS by anaesthetica · 2008-09-01 06:00 · Score: 5, Interesting · on Google Chrome, the Google Browser

Based on Page 4, Google is designing the browser as if it were an operating system. This is something that I commented on previously in the discussion of Microsoft's approach to IE8. Going from shared memory to protected memory was a big step for multitasking on the desktop, and since web applications are more and more complex, the same move needs to be made with browser design.

If IE8 and "Google Chrome" are moving in this direction, what will we see from Safari and Firefox? Safari 4 betas give no indication of a fundamental re-architecting. Firefox 4 is still at least a year away, and so far no one in that community has been publicly talking about this kind of redesign. And Opera... who knows?

Ha! by Warll · 2008-09-01 05:15 · Score: 4, Informative · on Google Chrome, the Google Browser

Found the comic link: http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome/

Re:Notice that Google doesn't cover Washington by Anonymous Coward · 2008-07-26 11:00 · Score: 0 · on Google Caught On Private Property

Google StreetView has photogragphed parts of Washington, DC, they just haven't made it public yet.

Google has been developing this for some time. by lhaeh · 2008-05-13 09:57 · Score: 4, Informative · on Google Begins Blurring Faces In Street View

This article from a year ago shows that Google has had public implementations of facial recognition for some time. Simply appending &imgtype=face to a Google image search URL will just show images of faces.

I can see where this is going... by Doug52392 · 2008-02-03 03:38 · Score: 1 · on Yahoo Deal Is Big, but Is It the Next Big Thing?

I use Yahoo, it's not my favorite search engine, but I have an e-mail address there. I know exactly what m$ would do when they get their hands on Yahoo:
1. Rewrite Yahoo to use Microsoft Silverlight as much as possible
2. Redesign Yahoo Mail to look like this
3. Convert everyone's existing Yahoo Mail accounts to Windows Live accounts (which would cause lots of problems anyway)
4. Charge extra for using Microsoft Outlook, Evolution, or other mail clients (IMAP access)
5. Limit the space you have to a very small size

Re:I really do not get it... by Deviate_X · 2008-02-03 02:01 · Score: 1 · on Yahoo Deal Is Big, but Is It the Next Big Thing?

If Yahoo declines any further then Flickr, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo Groups could be acquired by Google to give them a position in markets where they are now only minor players. Yahoo is worth 100 Doubleclick's, 44 billion for that is a bargin.

I don't want Yahoo to look like this! by Doug52392 · 2008-02-02 06:56 · Score: 1 · on Yahoo Bid shows Microsoft on the Ropes

What could happen to Yahoo --

Re:Are they productive? by morgus+morphus · 2008-01-19 08:21 · Score: 1 · on Open Source Speech Recognition

Google are working on this: http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-12-17-n30.html
They're using Goog-411 to get voice samples to train their speech recognition engine.

Re:The original Google Bomb is a VERY bad thing by TheoMurpse · 2008-01-13 04:44 · Score: 1 · on XKCD Inadvertently Causes Googlebomb

It's a form of Black Hat search engine optimization, in which you destroy a competitor's website. The way it's done is to set up a link farm of your own, but with every page pointing at your competitor's site. Eventually Google and the other search engine operators discover the link farm, but assume that your competitor put it there, and remove it from the index.

Thus they tell me at webmasterworld.

I've never seen it used that way until now. There really isn't an authoritative source on what it means, but I've always used it in the "miserable failure"=>Bush sense. Wikipedia, Search Engine Land, Urban Dictionary, and even Google Bomb Watch agree with me there.

Now to define what I mean: A Google Bomb is where an entity/group decides to have text X point to site Y, often for humor purposes (e.g., "french military victories" used to link to a fake-Google site saying "no 'french military victories' found, did you mean 'french military defeats'?" so when you hit "I feel lucky," "Google" would allegedly report that). They make a whole lot of pages contain(ing) the text <a href="Y">X</a>, and Google does the rest with its indexing.