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Learning to Love the Panopticon

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the all-seeing-eye dept.

mitd writes: "Cory Doctrow has written an insightful article about Google, search engines and how he stopped worrying."

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  1. Nice description by torqer · · Score: 3, Informative
    In case you were like me and really had no idea what the submitter was talking about in his description...

    The link is to an article that gives some insight into how google searches through the hordes and hordes of webpages. And bashes other search engines.

    Note to submitter: while brevity may be the soul of wit try to remember we haven't read the article yet and need just a little more information.

  2. How to abuse Google by AftanGustur · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually Google's system can, and is, beeing abused..

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    1. Re:How to abuse Google by PeterClark · · Score: 3, Informative
      Well, this has been known for a long time. But really, it's not as big a deal as one might think. "Scientology" as a search term pulls up an entire page of Scinetologist sites, except for #4, which is xenu.net. However, the first page for "Scientology secrets" is full of sites that debunk Scientology. So yes, the Church of Scientology has a virtual monopoly on the search "Scientology" but is far, far from controlling other search items. It all works out in the end.


      :Peter

  3. More Google Links by Schwarzchild · · Score: 5, Informative
    How Google Works

    Undocumented Google Commands

    Google Time Bombs

    Google Science-Fiction

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  4. Wrong about email by Karellen · · Score: 5, Informative

    He's wrong about one thing. Email does have links. It has links indicating who it came from and who it went to. Even without the content, that sort of information, about who is talking to whom, and in what patterns, can be really informative to those who know what they're looking for.

    If you include the content, it's a goldmine.

    URLs embedded in email would make it better again

    Aside from that though, great article.

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