Google Is Not Your Friend -- VERY DISTURBING INFO...

[Peter Frank]

Not so unlikely bedfellows --

"...Matt Cutts, a key Google engineer, used to work for the National Security Agency. Google wants to hire more people with security clearances, so that they can peddle their corporate assets to the spooks in Washington."


"...9) Google is a privacy time bomb:

With 200 million searches per day, most from outside the U.S., Google amounts to a privacy disaster waiting to happen. Those newly-commissioned data-mining bureaucrats in Washington can only dream about the sort of slick efficiency that Google has already achieved."

http://forums.techguy.org/showthread.php?threadid=212975&31975a6c7f23f52ea1869844302669b6

[jillan]

1. Want to see something really scary?

Google "Peter Frank".

[WiseButAngrySara]

7. What's it say?......n/t

[Cronus Protagonist]

9. LInks to an author - I didn't see anything scary

Or is the scary thing that nothing scary comes up?

heh


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[dweller]

10. Google pic, pirhana

you bad.

dp

[lvx35]

11. Google is one of the biggest first ammendment threats we face.

If the search engines all conglomerate and become owned by three transnational corporations like the old media did, than the search engines will be the censorship devices of tomorrow...They can refuse to index anybody, anytime, yet sinse they have been so very generous up to this point, everybody has laid their trust in them, and they have become integrated into our lives.

[jillan]

13. this was on page 9 of google search for pirhana

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=139x1956
that was one of my first posts at du!
I don't know if there is more on the following pages.

I used to go on the Randi Rhodes message board. You can find my posts on page 3 of the google search for pirhana.

btw - that is not my best picture :)

[dweller]

14. would make a great T-shirt, no?

google pic, dweller ...





tis fun.
dp

[Cocoa]

2. Dan Senor got hired by Google recently

Senor was Paul Bremer's spokesman in Iraq, and is or was dating Campbell Brown.

[madeline_con]

3. Is the government hiring?

They'll need millions more employees to filter and read all the communications going on.

[autorank]

4. I do a lot of news searching lately. Yahoo is vastly superior.

Google started strong but they're making the AOL mistake. Forget the customers, play the power games (staff, contributions) and take the easy route. Well, it's a very nice search engine and business case, to start, but now there are alternatives. They'll fail, one big scandal and we'll all be yahoo'ing!

[Jamastiene]

6. I almost alway use Yahoo too. I never have gotten the popularity of

Google in the first place. I stuck with Yahoo after trying Google.

[autorank]

8. I think it's just siimple interface and aggressive marketing initially,

which is when it counts. Based on what I'm hearing, they're now distracted and having little corporate circle jerks about world dominance. The Senor thing is just amazing...now there's a guy for the information(dis) age. Yahoo also let it's interface look cheap, which is not relevant at all but impacts the masses. Yahoo!

[WiseButAngrySara]

5. I've been worried about this as a potential problem since the recent

non-election. Scary.

[bdot]

12. I've always used Yahoo. It has a better search engine than Google.

[progressive_realist]

15. Google's news service sucks.

There's really no other way to put it. I tried for months to give them a fair chance, and they almost never report on the stories I find important, when I find them important. Sometimes they pick up the story weeks later. That's not good enough.

Even for web searches, I prefer Yahoo's results to Google's.

[Peter Frank]

16. I Agree, However -- Here's the Rub...

"...8) Google is not your friend:

Young, stupid script kiddies and many bloggers still think Google is 'way kool,' so by now Google enjoys a 75 percent monopoly for all external referrals to most websites. No webmaster can avoid seeking Google's approval these days, assuming he wants to increase traffic to his site. If he tries to take advantage of some of the known weaknesses in Google's semi-secret algorithms, he may find himself penalized by Google, and his traffic disappears. There are no detailed, published standards issued by Google, and there is no appeal process for penalized sites. Google is completely unaccountable. Most of the time they don't even answer email from webmasters..."

http://forums.techguy.org/showthread.php?threadid=212975&31975a6c7f23f52ea1869844302669b6

[Stephanie]

20. What are the alteranatives?

I use Yahoo for news, but what about basic search? Alta Vista, Dogpile, what?

[Peter Frank]

21. It's Not a Matter of Alternatives...

...Yahoo easily could be as corrupted (or corruptible) as Google. We should all be determined to expose the un-American underground.

The powers that be thrive on secrecy, and take great care to keep their real motives and processes out of the public arena. This is an unimaginably immense threat to what we all think of as our patriotic heritage of government by, for, and of the people.

The ruling vein of power views openness as a threat. Therefor openness must rule.

[Cleita]

25. I use "Ask Jeeves" a lot.n/t

[Peter Frank]

26. Yahoo Does a Great Job But...

...who knows what might be going on there as well?

[wli]

17. people have already found things censored off google

Political things, of course.

[Peter Frank]

18. When You Sleep With The Big Dogs...

...you wake up with the big fleas.

Google's quest for global domination of its market has made itself subservient to a more aggressive power, in search of a more insidious type of domination.

[WiseButAngrySara]

23. Do you have any examples of this? I have relied on Google for

everything for years, so much so that I thought I was the inventor of the new verb 'googled.' It's good to know of alternatives. I'll try Yahoo. Tried Alta Vista in the past, and found them to be superior if the search was of a scientific nature.

[Peter Frank]

24. I Can Refer You to the Site I Posted...

""...6) Google's toolbar is spyware:

With the advanced features enabled, Google's free toolbar for Explorer phones home with every page you surf, and yes, it reads your cookie too. Their privacy policy confesses this, but that's only because Alexa lost a class-action lawsuit when their toolbar did the same thing, and their privacy policy failed to explain this. Worse yet, Google's toolbar updates to new versions quietly, and without asking. This means that if you have the toolbar installed, Google essentially has complete access to your hard disk every time you connect to Google (which is many times a day). Most software vendors, and even Microsoft, ask if you'd like an updated version. But not Google. Any software that updates automatically presents a massive security risk.

http://forums.techguy.org/showthread.php?threadid=212975&31975a6c7f23f52ea1869844302669b6

[WiseButAngrySara]

27. Thanks! I'll check it out.....................n/t

[Peter Frank]

19. 6) Google's toolbar is spyware:

"With the advanced features enabled, Google's free toolbar for Explorer phones home with every page you surf, and yes, it reads your cookie too. Their privacy policy confesses this, but that's only because Alexa lost a class-action lawsuit when their toolbar did the same thing, and their privacy policy failed to explain this. Worse yet, Google's toolbar updates to new versions quietly, and without asking. This means that if you have the toolbar installed, Google essentially has complete access to your hard disk every time you connect to Google (which is many times a day). Most software vendors, and even Microsoft, ask if you'd like an updated version. But not Google. Any software that updates automatically presents a massive security risk..."

[Peter Frank]

22. Kick...

:kick: