The World According to Google

Ant writes "BBC News has an interesting article and a streaming video documentary on Google. It has interviews with Google staff and people who dislike the company. From the article: 'In the 18 months since its stock market flotation, Google has been transformed from a company that prided itself on being simple and effective, into a multi-headed high tech beast which wants to get involved in everything.'"

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Remember this is "The Money Programme"

[thewiltog]

I watched the programme on Friday evening. For all you non-Brits (or young Brits), you may like to know that this series has been running on the BBC for many years. The episodes are always good on what you would expect from the title - money, the business world in general. However, it seems to me that business journalists just don't 'get' the internet, and the later part of the program seemed to reflect this. There was a section that went out of the way to highlight what appeared to br one womans unease about the privacy problems caused by Google's ability to store the results of a users searches - with no mention of the fact that in most cases all Gooogle will have is an IP address, or even that using Google (or even the Internet) isn't compulsory.