Google really has some wonderful offerings: best search engine, google maps, google earth, g-mail, (and more).
If it were not for the privacy issues they would be fine. But their position on privacy is not okay and they are not fine. http://www.imilly.com/google-cookie.htm http://www.google-watch.org http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm (scrogle lets the user obtain google's search results without the tracking.) Instead of google consider using: http://www.ask.com http://www.cuil.com I remember reading where someone took the source from the goole chrome browser, removed all the phone home code, and rebranded it Iron. It seems clear that the only reason google authored and distributed their own browser is so that they could gather more data about users. Sean Burns wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 08:50:48AM -0600, Theresa Kehoe wrote: > >> Did you read the article as well as the digg comments? In particular, >> this paragraph: >> > > Yeah I read that article. It's asking questions. And they're > fine questions. They should be asked. Especially if they did see > that AdWords link, which they didn't provide a snapshot of. > > I'm just thinking your really, really inclined to think Google is > evil. Maybe they are, but before I cast judgment, I need better > evidence. > > Sean > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
