I'm sorry, but it smacks of hypocracy when Google fights the DOJ one day, supposedly for the privacy of its users, and complies with the PRC the next day in order to get into the world's second largest internet market.
I'm sorry, but this smacks of Microsoft distributing IE for free simply to put Netscape out of business because they could afford to do it. I don't think that "declaring war" is helpful at all. This has become about over inflated egos at Google and not about providing customers with better products. I dislike Microsoft as much as the next envious geek, but I really don't have any admiration for Google for actively trying to hurt Microsoft either. Declare war? Please grow up.
This is not a rumor. I have a friend who works at Google and he's been talking about this for at least 8 months now. The question is, how will the phone companies respond? They are losing their phone business to VOIP, now their ISP business is being threatened.
This is scraping the barrel for revenue. I don't know if this brings value to consumers; but I do know that Google is doing a good job of tainting something extremely useful for their own benefit. Having ads in my RSS feeds is more intrusive than I normally would expecte from g00gle
Making somebody homeless because you can't afford housing somewhere else is not justified.
On the flip-side, having no job, no home, being put in jail without a reason, having no human rights or dignity, or perhaps having at least one person you know of getting shot (and possibly dying as a result) is what might drive a person to do something totally insane - like commit a suicide attack...
Both acts are criminal no matter what the circumstances.
It's silly that an article like this makes its way into/. The people who approve the articles like these should know better than to bring something where there are sensitivities on both sides of the fence.
Google is to the information-age as Microsoft is to the computer-age.
As the web grows, their (or anybody else's) index will take longer to update, introducing a lag as to the relevancy of their links. They must know this as they are apparantly moving into new areas to grow their revenue. I wonder if they will be as profitable in things other than pay-per-click advertising...this move into VOIP seems like a move out of desperation.
[As far as those who contend the Microsoft analogy, then I would have to argue that google-bombing is perhaps the equivalent to an information virus. Sure it doesn't crash your system like a normal virus on an OS does, but it does crash the relevancy of their index.]
I actually feel for her being in a room full of geeks (and now perhaps all of/.) having fantasies of her every time she's within a 10 foot radius (or perhaps when her pic is downloaded off the internet).
I wasted the first 10 minutes waiting for the flash demo to be blocked by adblock, and then waited another 15 minutes to see a south-park cartoon that wasn't even funny!
A full release of enlightenment is something I dearly look forward to. DR16 is, for my purposes, the best wm available for linux. I cannot live without the drag bar! That is, of course, when I'm not using my mac...
I would like to see some of enlightenment's features integrated with my aqua mac. Any suggestions?
What I've been saying all along. We are telling brain-power to stay over there in India, rather than come over here to the United States. I wonder what it would be like if people like Vinod Khosla were told to work over there and don't come here to innovate.
The acquisition of Keyhole has made the maps possible. In fact, the way Google maps behaves is reminiscent of how Keyhole's software operates. I think it will be in no time that other foreign nations will have access to the same type of information that we have in the US.
It's Google's to lose, that's for sure. MS has the money to catalyze that loss. According to some of the things I am hearing coming out of Google, they are not even interested in the search market; they are interested in going after Microsoft's market-share in the OS world.
I noticed something strange in November. I made a few political spoofs and posted them to a board. I also posted notices on the same boards pointing to those spoofs. Within 24 hours, MSN beta search had a link as the top search result for the titles for one of the spoofs. It took Google quite some time to catch up (I think about 1 week).
The thing that made me a little worried was if Microsoft was doing something at the OS level to help their bots crawl the web? Has Microsoft found a legal loophole in their EULA to collaboratively utilize the browsing activity of millions in order to make a better index?
Slashdot Mirror
Hmmm...let's see, our choices are:
1) we influence them
2) they influence us
I suppose Google is opting for the second. I think the time has come for Google to get off of their high-horse and drop "Do no evil"
I'm sorry, but it smacks of hypocracy when Google fights the DOJ one day, supposedly for the privacy of its users, and complies with the PRC the next day in order to get into the world's second largest internet market.
I'm sorry, but this smacks of Microsoft distributing IE for free simply to put Netscape out of business because they could afford to do it. I don't think that "declaring war" is helpful at all. This has become about over inflated egos at Google and not about providing customers with better products. I dislike Microsoft as much as the next envious geek, but I really don't have any admiration for Google for actively trying to hurt Microsoft either. Declare war? Please grow up.
I for one welcome our Google overlords.
This is not a rumor. I have a friend who works at Google and he's been talking about this for at least 8 months now. The question is, how will the phone companies respond? They are losing their phone business to VOIP, now their ISP business is being threatened.
all your base are belong to google
This is scraping the barrel for revenue. I don't know if this brings value to consumers; but I do know that Google is doing a good job of tainting something extremely useful for their own benefit. Having ads in my RSS feeds is more intrusive than I normally would expecte from g00gle
Neither is this news for nerds nor is it stuff that matters...
Yet more levels of geekdom? How far does the rabbit hole go? I should have taken the blue pill...
I agree, it's the same way microsoft needlessly reinvents things...
SELL SELL SELL SHORT!!!!
Thank you, I'm glad at least one person has the guts to agree with me.
Making somebody homeless because you can't afford housing somewhere else is not justified.
/. The people who approve the articles like these should know better than to bring something where there are sensitivities on both sides of the fence.
On the flip-side, having no job, no home, being put in jail without a reason, having no human rights or dignity, or perhaps having at least one person you know of getting shot (and possibly dying as a result) is what might drive a person to do something totally insane - like commit a suicide attack...
Both acts are criminal no matter what the circumstances.
It's silly that an article like this makes its way into
Google is to the information-age as Microsoft is to the computer-age.
As the web grows, their (or anybody else's) index will take longer to update, introducing a lag as to the relevancy of their links. They must know this as they are apparantly moving into new areas to grow their revenue. I wonder if they will be as profitable in things other than pay-per-click advertising...this move into VOIP seems like a move out of desperation.
[As far as those who contend the Microsoft analogy, then I would have to argue that google-bombing is perhaps the equivalent to an information virus. Sure it doesn't crash your system like a normal virus on an OS does, but it does crash the relevancy of their index.]
I actually feel for her being in a room full of geeks (and now perhaps all of /.) having fantasies of her every time she's within a 10 foot radius (or perhaps when her pic is downloaded off the internet).
Nice to see our tax dollars being used to beat a 17 year-old. Wait, who won that again?
I wasted the first 10 minutes waiting for the flash demo to be blocked by adblock, and then waited another 15 minutes to see a south-park cartoon that wasn't even funny!
update: sudo port install enlightenment
A full release of enlightenment is something I dearly look forward to. DR16 is, for my purposes, the best wm available for linux. I cannot live without the drag bar! That is, of course, when I'm not using my mac...
I would like to see some of enlightenment's features integrated with my aqua mac. Any suggestions?
What I've been saying all along. We are telling brain-power to stay over there in India, rather than come over here to the United States. I wonder what it would be like if people like Vinod Khosla were told to work over there and don't come here to innovate.
The acquisition of Keyhole has made the maps possible. In fact, the way Google maps behaves is reminiscent of how Keyhole's software operates. I think it will be in no time that other foreign nations will have access to the same type of information that we have in the US.
It's Google's to lose, that's for sure. MS has the money to catalyze that loss. According to some of the things I am hearing coming out of Google, they are not even interested in the search market; they are interested in going after Microsoft's market-share in the OS world.
But how long does it take to crawl the entire web? I highly doubt it's crawling the web in the way Googlebots are doing it.
This is crazy...I think slashdot is being BillGatesed. I see nothing but Gates of Borg on the front page!
I noticed something strange in November. I made a few political spoofs and posted them to a board. I also posted notices on the same boards pointing to those spoofs. Within 24 hours, MSN beta search had a link as the top search result for the titles for one of the spoofs. It took Google quite some time to catch up (I think about 1 week).
The thing that made me a little worried was if Microsoft was doing something at the OS level to help their bots crawl the web? Has Microsoft found a legal loophole in their EULA to collaboratively utilize the browsing activity of millions in order to make a better index?