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Google is EVIL. Period.

Google is no cooperating with the NSA. They are a fully-funded CIA company operation, with stock-price manipulation managed in a hideous outgrowth of the "plunge protection" team.

Look. George Herbert Walker Bush and his invisible masters are teh real, secret government in the USA. The former head of the secret police has been the Defense Secretary for the past 2 administrations.

The company captured the US. This became apparent as they engineered the killings of JFK, RFK and MLK - then ensured the downfall of Nixon - to be replaced by Ford, one of the lead stooges on the Warren Commission.

Google is the new name for Big Brother. This is the principal tool for social control and monitoring of the shadow-corporatist government, enforced through the "TLA's"

Use this shit, and it's like kissing your own prison floor.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2010/02/googles-reported-tie-up-with-nsa-raises-concern-/1

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/03/AR2010020304057.html?wpisrc=nl_tech

http://www.threadwatch.org/node/9612

http://groups.google.com/group/global-text-project-general-group/browse_thread/thread/d7256b9b18f0b0a7

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6130M120100204

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/CIA_creates_miniGoogle_0331.html

http://www.google-watch.org/jobad.html

http://911review.org/Alex/reference/google_and_CIA.html

But don't take my word for it: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/01/199212&from=rss

They have, evidently.

Fiction eh?

"...there are signs that the industry is losing its trust in Google and losing respect for them. Just look at how "AdWordsAdvisor" - a Google rep that visits Webmaster World (but hasn't posted in ages) - tries to clear the air about the trust score for landing pages (another huge issue).

"Nice try Google. But no go. You're learning that it's not possible to keep an open community relationship with those you depend on and maintain that parochial level of authority. Power = corruption it's that simple and we are all witnessing the opening salvo of a growing corrupt power named Google.

"Who's so naive that they believe this company won't be evil? How are they any different from any other big business? In the end we've seen this before many times and sadly when it comes to business, ideals are only words on paper. The bottom line drives the decisions."

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Marcel http://pressrelease.cc/

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Eric
William Shatner, nameless cereal box celebrity

Also, does anyone else find it strange having a TLD for mobile devices? I thought TLDs referred to country specific sites (ccTLDs) or to owner specific sites (.org, .gov, .net etc.) not to how the site is accessed?

Ah, that would be a yes then. E.g. http://www.threadwatch.org/node/865

Site should be "device agnostic". Indeed. Good websites can just use CSS 2(.1) media stylesheets to send different styles to mobile user agents. A good user agent (Opera, Minimo, etc.) will handle this properly, and there's no need for a TLD.

What a load of unnecessary effort.

Oh, I just submitted the following story:

It seems that Google is going to announce a new service called Google Base today at the invite only Google Zeitgeist conference. At the moment, we only have a few screenshots and a pretty interesting discussion at threadwatch.org. Conflicting rumors have pointed to a new Google database, classifieds like Craigslist, an Ebay contender or just another way to submit URLs.

I'm not even sure that IIIR has the trademark. If you look HERE it seems that a company from Florida called Cencourse filed for the trademark the day that Google broke the news about its new GMail service. Google is actually 4th in line for the GMail name. Everyone who filed applications did so within 4 days of Google launching the news. Google waited a week or so.

How VERY interesting!

Now, can we please get back to bashing M$ and worshipping Google no matter what they do?

Thanks!

Google is doing evil. Why wont Slashdot report it? Would it interefere with their business relationship, or would it ruin the childish myth they are perpetuation of "good megacorporation" vs. "evil megacorporation" that has been so good for page views and ad exposure?

Ah, yes... because we all know Google, that huge cash machine you seem to think is above it all, would never file ridiculous patents. Is this doing any evil? If it were a MS patent application, it would be a front page story on slashdot... I wonder why they won't post these stories about google... Because it might interefere with their business arrangement with that megacompany who 'does no evil'? Or simply because they like to perpetuate this childish myth of 'good vs. evil' corporations because its good for their page views and ad exposure?

Will it interefere with Slashdot's "business relationship" with Google?

Google, which was about the last one in the contextual advertising space to jump on the (somewhat annoying, honestly) "ads in RSS" bandwagon, has now filed for a patent on embedding ads in syndicated content.