Bob La Quey wrote:
On 9/13/07, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bob La Quey wrote:
Well I hate to be a party pooper but I suggest that you
at least try gmail, browser interface and all, before
you go to the troubleof rolling your own.
I don't do gmail because it doesn't do IMAP. Period.
Not an issue for me.
At this point, IMAP is a deal breaker. I *like* having my email
archived on the server *and* on the machine I'm using.
You can do this with gmail if you want. I don't care.
I never really trusted Google but, I don't like the direction Google is
going at this point.
That comment is worth eleaborating, please.
Well, the whole "street view" thing has some very significant privacy
concerns that Google is basically ignoring. Worse, it's not even very
hard to avoid (you just drive past something *twice* and composite the
pictures to remove all the humans).
Google has demonstrated that they will cave to governments when money is
involved. The only reason they didn't cave to the US government is that
it would cost them more money to comply than to fight.
Google's results are now effectively useless. Google doesn't update and
pull in new websites with any rapidity (to avoid getting gamed by the
optimization folks). However, sites which are already established often
create specific affiliate websites in order to coopt existing search
terms. Finally, lots of high rank, obsolete dead web pages exist
because changing them would drop their Google rank and thus the value of
the links *off* of the page.
Yet, despite not moving very fast everywhere else, Google regularly
crushes small sites--either because they suddenly change their
Googlerank algorithm or the site makes edits. Those small sites get
replaced by big players who have staff to make *sure* that they never do
anything that will drop their Googlerank ever again.
To be fair, not all of this is Google's fault. However, we would all be
better served by a Google that was 30% of the search market rather than
60-70%.
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