The "ulterior motive" is pretty obvious; In fact, it's out in the open -- just read the privacy policy. They will scan your e-mail for keywords and display targeted advertising.
I've had a similar experience in the U.S. (Pennsylvania, specifically.) I finished 5 grades in the USSR (the part that is now Ukraine.) I started 6th grade here in the U.S., and up until 10th grade, everything that I was being taught was something that I had already learned. (Obviously, this excludes some parts of U.S.-specific subjects, like English.)
I run a submission-based web site that, at times, gets a lot of duplicate (or very similar) submissions. I have a basic Bayesian script break each new submission into words and flag it if it's too close to something else.
With the current anti-privacy happenings in other areas, I could see them raising red flags if someone was doing a lot of detailed searches of a particular nature (e.g. recipes for explosive devices.) I doubt you could be arrested for doing a series of Google searches, but it may attract the Eye's gaze. However, I think that there is so much surveillance already happening at the ISP level that doing it at Google would be mostly redundant.
IMHO, the main reason they have that guy on the board is because he has a lot of experience with managing huge databases. But I've been feeling uncomfortable about Google's information gathering for a while, but I'm too lazy to do anything about it other than to clear my cookies frequently.
One thing that I find slightly reassuring is that they are totally in the open about it. They don't brag about gathering data on you, but they aren't trying to conseal what they are doing either.
I agree. I can see where this could be used for many non-evil purposes, such as:
Which links people find the most interesting for a particular keyword. (User's first click).
Which search results are "deceptive". (User clicks one search result, then another within a few seconds.) This could be very useful for additional spam detection. They could compare the stats with those for the pages that were reported as spam.
The first most useful match. (User's last click.)
I'm only wearing half a tinfoil hat, but I really wanted to bring everyone's attention to this new feature and see who is/isn't seeing it. I got to this discussion late and was really surprised that noone had mentioned it yet.
P.S. I am now seeing at work when I look with IE but not with Opera.
The strange thing is this: When I tried the same page at work, it didn't have the tracking script. But when I VNCed home and tried it again -- it still did.
I saved a copy of the page at the following URL: http://www.phrise.com/google.html (I added <base href=http://www.google.com/> at the top.)
The problem is that the additional components (like media player) cost more development time, and thus increase the price of the OS.
The same way the development of games for the game console increases the price of the bundle.
So if you're just running on a 286 that can't play divxs anyway, why should you subsidise those that want to watch videos?
Should Microsoft be required by law to cater to every possible user? It certainly makes more sense to them to cater to the majority of potential users -- just like it does to any other business. What's wrong with that?
The other problem is of course, that their market position makes things really difficult for competitors to get a viable product off the ground. How many people use netscape these days?
Isn't this the whole idea of competition in a free market? To have an advantage over your competitors? Should Microsoft be required by law to make things easier on their competition?
It wasn't so very long ago that it was the browser of choice.
And now it isn't! Things change quickly in life, and even quicker in the tech world. It wasn't so very long ago that Mosaic was the browser of choice.
Now I accept that some of that may be due to Netscape being less good, but the majority of the pressure is going to be from those who just click the 'internet' button and oh look, there's IE.
Now, I'm no fan of IE, but isn't it a good thing for the computer (most people get a copy of Windows pre-installed on their new computer) to come with everything a newbie will need for the basic computer/Internet experience?
Seriously, given the denounces of delayed APIs for Navigator
I thought I was the only one who noticed this! Everything works much faster in Windows 2000/XP except for Netscape Navigator when it is doing network stuff. For me, Netscape flies on NT4 and Windows 95, but is incredibly slow on newer versions of Windows.
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Yeah. And the more you drink, the better it is. I'm on today's 15th Americano and I couldn't be healthier!
It seems that both Yahoo, and lately Microsoft, have discovered a pretty good solution for spam. My YM mailbox has been largely spam-free for a few months, and in the last week or two, Hotmail has been doing a pretty good job as well. Every now and then a spam gets through, but that's about it.
I don't see how either one of these is a grammatical error. Seems right to IMHO...
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Too often, the approach of throwing more developers at a project to shorten deliverable dates is not backed up by a manager that really knows how tasks can get done without the developers
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This is best accomplished with leadership from a serious, and seasoned professional who knows that quality is a passion; performance is a must; reliability is a science; and maintainability is a
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To me, the concept is similar to patching a for loop that isnt working right by screwing with the counter in the test. It may get things working- but it also has the potential to break a lot of other things. It's the wrong way to go about doing things.
It's more like punching a TV when the picture is fuzzy.
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All I want is an LCD display on my dashboard that I can customize to my liking.
The "ulterior motive" is pretty obvious; In fact, it's out in the open -- just read the privacy policy. They will scan your e-mail for keywords and display targeted advertising.
I've had a similar experience in the U.S. (Pennsylvania, specifically.) I finished 5 grades in the USSR (the part that is now Ukraine.) I started 6th grade here in the U.S., and up until 10th grade, everything that I was being taught was something that I had already learned. (Obviously, this excludes some parts of U.S.-specific subjects, like English.)
Buying a new house. If my current house runs out, I have to buy a new one. In order to do that, I have to leave my current house.
IMHO, the main reason they have that guy on the board is because he has a lot of experience with managing huge databases. But I've been feeling uncomfortable about Google's information gathering for a while, but I'm too lazy to do anything about it other than to clear my cookies frequently.
One thing that I find slightly reassuring is that they are totally in the open about it. They don't brag about gathering data on you, but they aren't trying to conseal what they are doing either.
The Universe collapses and ceases to exist.
- Which links people find the most interesting for a particular keyword. (User's first click).
- Which search results are "deceptive". (User clicks one search result, then another within a few seconds.) This could be very useful for additional spam detection. They could compare the stats with those for the pages that were reported as spam.
- The first most useful match. (User's last click.)
I'm only wearing half a tinfoil hat, but I really wanted to bring everyone's attention to this new feature and see who is/isn't seeing it. I got to this discussion late and was really surprised that noone had mentioned it yet.P.S. I am now seeing at work when I look with IE but not with Opera.
I saved a copy of the page at the following URL: http://www.phrise.com/google.html (I added <base href=http://www.google.com/> at the top.)
If you're seeing the same thing, please reply...
RMS demands that HP be referred to as GNU/HP.
So don't support them. Don't buy RIAA music. If you're not sure, check on RIAA Radar.
I thought I was the only one who noticed this! Everything works much faster in Windows 2000/XP except for Netscape Navigator when it is doing network stuff. For me, Netscape flies on NT4 and Windows 95, but is incredibly slow on newer versions of Windows.
Yeah. And the more you drink, the better it is. I'm on today's 15th Americano and I couldn't be healthier!
Exactly what Opera does
It seems that both Yahoo, and lately Microsoft, have discovered a pretty good solution for spam. My YM mailbox has been largely spam-free for a few months, and in the last week or two, Hotmail has been doing a pretty good job as well. Every now and then a spam gets through, but that's about it.
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I haven't heard anything about Region Coding being phased out. Do you have any links? This would be a very welcome development.