Google Puts the Brakes On Saving the World

An anonymous reader sends along a sharp and snarky article that takes Google to task for taking longer than expected to award $10M in its competition to find and fund world-bettering ideas. The submitter comments, "After using its tenth birthday as occasion to solicit philanthropic ideas from Web users through its Project 10^100, Google appears to have backed off from its commitment to provide $10 million in funding to the winner. While the company was supposed to reveal the Project 10^100 winner in February, Google has since delayed the vote once and now suspended it indefinitely, due to the overwhelming response — Google says it received 150,000 entries. A Google spokeswoman wouldn't commit to a new date, saying only it would be delayed 'for a while longer.' She further apologized for the company's 'over optimistic assumptions about how quickly we could analyze all the ideas that we've received.'"

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Re:Google loves spam

[shanen]

Before the mangling by the /. censorship system, that particular email included a Gmail address for the fake opt-out at the bottom. Wonderless /. was also unable to deal with the content, which was a Japanese advertisement for women with big tits. Technically, it's supposed to be illegal in Japan, but the actual accommodation is apparently to look the other way as long as they're above high school.

Google has actually done a pretty good job of reducing the spammers' websites that they were hosting directly on places like blogger. Gmail also kills spamming email addresses pretty quickly Those seem to be the only two fronts they are still fighting on. Fake opt-outs are quite common, as well as administrative contacts for spammers or for spammer front men. There are also lots of fake headers pointing to Gmail. I acknowledge it's hard to blame anyone for the Joe jobs, but Google should at least care about their reputation.

Instead, it is obvious that Google's new motto is "Live and let spam."

Me? I think every form of support for the spammers should be cut off. Google could do MUCH more to fight the spammers.