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Google in The New York Times
pq writes "The New York Time is running a mainstream review of Google, and how it plans to remain free of banner ads. (NYT, free registration, blah blah.)
" Nice little bit - with a bit of the history to the site and what they plan to do - and check out the other jobs at Google. Head Chef - maybe I wouldn't have to eat packet o' sauce and noodles all the time.
You know, if everyone covers this story (and it looks like just about everyone has) and they keep providing links to Google in reference to the "more evil than Satan himself" phrase, then pretty soon Google will find itself as often referenced in connection to evil, and they'll appear as one of the results to the search...
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As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
search for the following phrase:
"more evil than Satan himself"
You'll see that Google is actually more accurate and intuitive than many people think.
Cheers to BeDope (www.bedope.com) for pointing this out...
Not that I'm against banner ads, but let's not get crazy. They do plan on adding advertising. Read this little piece of doublespeak ...
http://www.google.com/advertisement.html
"Those who would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin,
Pass: malda
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I know people here hate Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks, etc. ... but where does Google get off caching my site and then SERVING MY COPYRIGHTED CONTENT without my permission?
... uhmmm no. I OWN my content and you will remove it when I say, that's what Copyrights are all about. Much of our legal system is based on the individual rights of property owners, I find it appalling that people would try to throw these rights away for the sake of a search engine.
Their arrogant FAQ answer says a lot about how they feel about this:
Q: How do I request that Google not returned cached material from my site?
A: Google stores many web pages in its cache to retrieve for users as a back-up in case the page's server temporarily fails. If requested to do so by a site owner, Google may remove certain cached content from the Google Search Services. We evaluate requests for removal of cached content on a case-by-case basis and do not guarantee that every request will be granted.
Remove content on a case-by-case basis
Needless to say I will NOT be using Google and they will prompty be placed in the deny section of my robots.txt.
As a user, I love google's search engine. However, I noticed their 'jobs' page a couple weeks ago. And some of the job offers are really extravagant, especially for a startup firm. It really makes me wonder what they're doing over there. I've seen a few highly sucessfull startup firms, hi-tech firms at that, and they'd never consider hiring a cook or massuese (ph.) If they're willing to hire with such abandon, I wonder how sound their business plan really is....
On another note, I find google's belief that they can create sufficient revenue without banner ads intriguing. Does anyone know how they're doing thus far? They profitable yet...how many years/months away?
I'm working on a project, an internet site, and i'm curious if anyone has any other alternative ways to generate revenues w/o the use of banner ads. Unfortunately, I can't disclose the concept behind the project at this point, but it would be of much help. It is not necessarily going to be commercial,