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Google Striking Fear into the Corporate Masses
SpectralDesign writes "The New York Times reports that Google is striking fear into the hearts of even unrelated industries. From the article: 'We watch Google very closely at Wal-Mart," said Jim Breyer, a member of Wal-Mart's board. In Google, Wal-Mart sees both a technology pioneer and the seed of a threat, said Mr. Breyer, who is also a partner in a venture capital firm. The worry is that by making information available everywhere, Google might soon be able to tell Wal-Mart shoppers if better bargains are available nearby.'"
Note: I work for google, so I'm posting AC.
If you are one of the few who has never been presented with evidence that Google plans to muzzle its critics, then be glad that the task to educate yourself has just become easy. With this letter, I compile all of the necessary evidence into one easy-to-read document. To get right down to it, almost every day, it outreaches itself in setting new records for arrogance, deceit, and greed. It's decidedly breathtaking to watch it. There are three points I need to make here. First, I have found, to my considerable surprise, that Google uses its victim status as a kind of magic incantation to stifle debate, disparage critical analysis, and persuade us that it is entitled to introduce, cultivate, and encourage moral rot. Second, the cardinal rule of its pranks is that cold-blooded careerism is the only thing that matters. And third, I could go on for pages listing innumerable examples of its offensive subliminal psywar campaigns and inconsiderate maneuvers. I have already written enough, surely, to convince you that Google keeps insisting that all literature which opposes unilateralism was forged by infernal pikers. To me, there is something fundamentally wrong with that story. Maybe it's that Google maliciously defames and damagingly misrepresents everyone and everything around it. There's a word for that: libel.
I must part company with many of my peers when it comes to understanding why there is an inherent contradiction between Google's maladroit form of propagandism and basic human rights. My peers contend that Google, serving as judge, jury, and executioner, has decreed that it should be a given a direct pipeline to the National Treasury. While this is doubtlessly true, I insist we must add that it never misses an opportunity to indulge its preoccupation with its alleged victimization. That's the current situation, and if you have any doubt about the reality of it, then you haven't been paying close enough attention to what's been happening in the world. Google likes thinking thoughts that aren't burdensome and that feel good. That's why if you think that obscurity, evasiveness, incomprehensibility, indirectness, and ambiguity are marks of depth and brilliance, then you're suffering from very serious nearsightedness. You're focusing too much on what Google wants you to see and failing to observe many other things of much greater importance, such as that it has written volumes about how the sky is falling. Don't believe a word of it, though. The truth is that I want to see all of us working together to reinforce notions of positive self esteem. Yes, this is an idealistic approach to actualizing our restorative goals. Nevertheless, you should realize that any rational argument must acknowledge this. Google's power-drunk rejoinders, naturally, do not. The poisonous wine of egotism had been distilled long before Google entered the scene. Google is merely the agent decanting the poisonous fluid from its bottle into the jug that is world humanity. The mot juste for describing Google's lamentations is most probably "scummy". To cap that off, this is a proscribed thought vs. free inquiry issue, an anti-democracy vs. democracy issue, and yes, a police state vs. free society issue. I mean, think about it. I will not say what is right and what is wrong when it comes to Google's ploys. But I will say one thing: Google needs some serious professional help. That said, let me continue.
Not surprisingly, while we do nothing, those who instill a general ennui are gloating and smirking. And they will keep on gloating and smirking until we disabuse Google of the notion that it is as innocent as a newborn lamb. It has been said that what Google is doing falls just short of giving handguns to schoolchildren. I, in turn, believe that one does not have to leave behind a legacy of perpetual indebtedness in developing countries in order to make technical preparations for the achievement of freedom and human independence and encourage others to do the same. It is a cantankerous perso
I for one have stopped using Goog£e. I used Yahoo & Start.com for
regular searches.
Goog£e has too much information for me to feel comfortable about
them.
If it were MS or someone who collected so much personal information
as Goog£e does, I am sure there would have been a lot of outrage
in the Geek Circles. But because it's Goog£e, everything's fine.