Huh? Google didn't do the right thing. They skirted blame by saying it was done "inadvertently." The RIGHT thing would have been to admit its wrongdoing. Note: admitting exposed facts is not the same as admitting wrongdoing. At the very least, the employee(s) responsible for skirting Google's own rules should be fired... unless of course they were following company orders. (Will we ever know? Did Google comment on the issue?)
It's sad that in today's world a company -- admitting the obvious after it has been caught -- merits praise. Google's response only makes me think less of the company. We're talking degrees of evil. Sure, other companies are "super evil," but Google has demonstrated this week that it is no saint.
My comment wasn't a matter of opinion disguised as fact. It was opinion stated as opinion. Most people do not feel the need to preface every sentence with "I feel," "I think," or "I believe." It's a given that what I said is my opinion because the content of my message was obviously subjective.
As for your point, yes, other search engines sucked before Google came on the scene. That only reinforces my point. We are better off with competition and multiple viable search services. Google created competition which has since raised the quality of those crappy search engines. That's good. However, the competition hasn't quite caught Google yet, which leaves the disillusioned with very few choices for alternative services. Those of us who see Google as an evil threat would be better served with "multiple viable search services," aka "alternatives."
So your premise is that if you like a product, you will use it without regard to the implications of your support for its manufacturer? (assuming the manufacturer is evil) The philosophy of detachment has led to many great evils throughout history.
Doing the right thing sometimes requires personal sacrifice.
I use AllTheWeb. I'm sure other good alternatives exist too.
Critics have been pointing out little bits of evil at Google for quite some time now. Autolink and self cloaking are merely the latest blips. If you don't like it, stop supporting Google. Every time you use Google, you are casting a vote.
Begin using other engines and break the homogenization of the search engine market. We are better off with competition and multiple viable search services.
I would like to register my outrage and indignation at this travesty of misinformation. It Slashdot keeps linking to fictitious news, I may just lose my trust in the Internet. Just think of the implications. I may no longer believe in the existence of UFOs, ghosts, leprechauns, fairies, and weapons of mass destruction.
Your post would be funny if you were playing on vagaries in my grammar, but alas I did instruct you to have sex with "your wife." Given that you've intentionally ignored your marital responsibilities, I have no sympathy for the decay of your marriage.
But to answer you question, the "win" was in breaking free of corporate media enslavement. The RIAA and MPAA do not yet regulate hot monkey love with your wife. That said, it is unfortunate for everyone else involved that your wife is not MILF.
Instead of moving to Canada, get married and make hot monkey love with your wife. After your first child is born, you'll soon realize adult images permeate every aspect of our existence -- images unseen by casual existence just twenty years ago -- and you'll want to kill your TV.
Or maybe you'll just move the TV to your bedroom and watch recorded shows after the kid is asleep. But I tell you, once you break the cycle of frequent TV watching, you realize how many cooler things you could be doing with your time besides watching corporate entertainment.
I forgive you for your stupidity. Do you consider parental filtering software illegal too? Because the law does not.
I filter three types of content:
1) Ads and images inappropriate for my children to see. They only use the computer in my presence, but surfing even "safe" web sites is not a guarantee they won't be exposed to content I, as their parent, deem inappropriate. I will not hand my parental rights over to you just because you feel you can lord over the rest of us with your high and mighty ego.
2) Deceptive advertising designed to look like Windows system prompts. While I have Firefox configured to not install software, my wife is still proficient at saving programs to her desktop and executing them when she is deceived.
3) Flash and other intensive content such as the auto-loading Flash movies on Amazon's front page that slow down and usually crash my computer. To view the HHGTTG trailer I have to reboot and load Firefox and visit the Amazon page withing running any other programs, and then pray my computer doesn't lock up before the trailer is loaded.
I'm sorry that you're such an arrogant prick that you feel you can dictate content and conduct for the rest of the world. You are one mean dumbfuck. Get a life. No really. Get a life.
Darn, you got me there. I wanted to view a publicly accessible trailer offered on the front page of Amazon.com. You got me. Guilty as charged. I'm a good corporate citizen. Begone troll.
Charging for miles driven while removing the tax for gas consumed will encourage the sale of more gas guzzlers and remove incentives for vehicle manufacturers to increase gas milage. Meanwhile, smog will increase.
Any GPS scheme must be coupled with mandates for increased fuel efficiency, or everyone gets screwed.
Dorm landline phones suck anyway. In my dorm, you paid the phone company an activation fee at the beginning of the semester. If you stayed for the summer, you had to move to a special dorm and pay another activation fee. Then at the beginning of the next school year that fall you paid another activation fee as you moved back. Two activation fees every year just for the privilege of doing business with you? No thanks.
Nevermind. It's marking one-way streets in the same color as highways. The hotel I looked for doesn't exist. A search for a restaurant turned up the restaurant and a ton of unrelated businesses (who don't even have similiar names, nor sell food). The interface is neat, but the content NEEDS LOTS OF WORK.
Oh Lord! Thanks, Firefox accesses Google Maps now. I find it very very difficult to believe I turned off that obscure, buried function. I'm surprised more Firefox users aren't complaining. I'm also disappointed that Google couldn't troubleshoot the problem for me.
I concur. I'm using Windows Firefox 1.0 and all I see is a tan box. Works fine in Internet Explorer though, except I get an ActiveX control propmt. If I refuse Active X, I see the same tan box.
Oh yeah, I'm using Firefox 1.0 under Windows and it's not working for me. I had to dig out Internet Explorer to look at this dud. I guess I'm the only Firefox user in the world who can't use this thing.
My local TV station airs Enterprise at midnight. They're lucky they have 2.5 million viewers. I never see the show advertised. Most of the time I forget to record the show. The few I've seen I've enjoyed.
Their anti-spyware software doesn't work on older versions of Windows. Poor ol' me with WinME will continue to use measures that work on older versions of Windows.
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It's wise to not type if you dislike people reading your words and drawing conclusions. This is a discussion forum. People will interpret your words and see things you are incapable of seeing about yourself. It's time for you to take a quiet moment (stare out your window or take a nap) and contemplate your place in this world.
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I'm comparing the evilness of Google to you -- a user of Google. Without followers, evil does not exist.
It's sad that in today's world a company -- admitting the obvious after it has been caught -- merits praise. Google's response only makes me think less of the company. We're talking degrees of evil. Sure, other companies are "super evil," but Google has demonstrated this week that it is no saint.
As for your point, yes, other search engines sucked before Google came on the scene. That only reinforces my point. We are better off with competition and multiple viable search services. Google created competition which has since raised the quality of those crappy search engines. That's good. However, the competition hasn't quite caught Google yet, which leaves the disillusioned with very few choices for alternative services. Those of us who see Google as an evil threat would be better served with "multiple viable search services," aka "alternatives."
Doing the right thing sometimes requires personal sacrifice.
I use AllTheWeb. I'm sure other good alternatives exist too.
Begin using other engines and break the homogenization of the search engine market. We are better off with competition and multiple viable search services.
I would like to register my outrage and indignation at this travesty of misinformation. It Slashdot keeps linking to fictitious news, I may just lose my trust in the Internet. Just think of the implications. I may no longer believe in the existence of UFOs, ghosts, leprechauns, fairies, and weapons of mass destruction.
But to answer you question, the "win" was in breaking free of corporate media enslavement. The RIAA and MPAA do not yet regulate hot monkey love with your wife. That said, it is unfortunate for everyone else involved that your wife is not MILF.
Or maybe you'll just move the TV to your bedroom and watch recorded shows after the kid is asleep. But I tell you, once you break the cycle of frequent TV watching, you realize how many cooler things you could be doing with your time besides watching corporate entertainment.
Begone Troll!
I filter three types of content:
1) Ads and images inappropriate for my children to see. They only use the computer in my presence, but surfing even "safe" web sites is not a guarantee they won't be exposed to content I, as their parent, deem inappropriate. I will not hand my parental rights over to you just because you feel you can lord over the rest of us with your high and mighty ego.
2) Deceptive advertising designed to look like Windows system prompts. While I have Firefox configured to not install software, my wife is still proficient at saving programs to her desktop and executing them when she is deceived.
3) Flash and other intensive content such as the auto-loading Flash movies on Amazon's front page that slow down and usually crash my computer. To view the HHGTTG trailer I have to reboot and load Firefox and visit the Amazon page withing running any other programs, and then pray my computer doesn't lock up before the trailer is loaded.
I'm sorry that you're such an arrogant prick that you feel you can dictate content and conduct for the rest of the world. You are one mean dumbfuck. Get a life. No really. Get a life.
Darn, you got me there. I wanted to view a publicly accessible trailer offered on the front page of Amazon.com. You got me. Guilty as charged. I'm a good corporate citizen. Begone troll.
Huh? Why would my wanting to view a video trailer on Amazon be considered stealing? STFU flamer.
I blocked those stupid Amazon Flash movies with the Adblock extension long ago. Unblocking content is a damned annoying process. Well, here I go.
Charging for miles driven while removing the tax for gas consumed will encourage the sale of more gas guzzlers and remove incentives for vehicle manufacturers to increase gas milage. Meanwhile, smog will increase. Any GPS scheme must be coupled with mandates for increased fuel efficiency, or everyone gets screwed.
Dorm landline phones suck anyway. In my dorm, you paid the phone company an activation fee at the beginning of the semester. If you stayed for the summer, you had to move to a special dorm and pay another activation fee. Then at the beginning of the next school year that fall you paid another activation fee as you moved back. Two activation fees every year just for the privilege of doing business with you? No thanks.
Or it's evidence of the opposite, that galaxies are not coalescing, but expanding.
Desperate times. Desperate measures.
Nevermind. It's marking one-way streets in the same color as highways. The hotel I looked for doesn't exist. A search for a restaurant turned up the restaurant and a ton of unrelated businesses (who don't even have similiar names, nor sell food). The interface is neat, but the content NEEDS LOTS OF WORK.
Oh Lord! Thanks, Firefox accesses Google Maps now. I find it very very difficult to believe I turned off that obscure, buried function. I'm surprised more Firefox users aren't complaining. I'm also disappointed that Google couldn't troubleshoot the problem for me.
I concur. I'm using Windows Firefox 1.0 and all I see is a tan box. Works fine in Internet Explorer though, except I get an ActiveX control propmt. If I refuse Active X, I see the same tan box.
Oh yeah, I'm using Firefox 1.0 under Windows and it's not working for me. I had to dig out Internet Explorer to look at this dud. I guess I'm the only Firefox user in the world who can't use this thing.
My local TV station airs Enterprise at midnight. They're lucky they have 2.5 million viewers. I never see the show advertised. Most of the time I forget to record the show. The few I've seen I've enjoyed.
I'd hate to see what my Safeway shopping card would get me arrested for.
Their anti-spyware software doesn't work on older versions of Windows. Poor ol' me with WinME will continue to use measures that work on older versions of Windows.
It's wise to not type if you dislike people reading your words and drawing conclusions. This is a discussion forum. People will interpret your words and see things you are incapable of seeing about yourself. It's time for you to take a quiet moment (stare out your window or take a nap) and contemplate your place in this world.