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Laptop bags Australia — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:23:47 -0000

Google is just like any large corporation, no better, no worse. They may dominate search at the moment, but I expect that will change over the years as search engines become more niche and specialised. It wasn't hat long ago that Alta Vista was the dominant player. then Yahoo.

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Jerky — Wed, 30 May 2007 18:57:03 -0000

Can't wait til Google buys Accutracking.com. Not only will they know everything we do online, but soon will know everywhere we go....

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Helen M. Overland — Tue, 29 May 2007 12:05:43 -0000

We blogged about this back in February... this is a trend that has been slowly growing for probably the better part of a year now.

Here is the round-up of concerns about Google up until Valentines day this year:

http://www.nonlinear.ca/blo...

Between the large number of recent acquisitions and the increasing centralization of Google's services, there seems to be more and more people expressing concern at the amount of clout one company should hold.

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matt — Tue, 29 May 2007 10:05:15 -0000

It is inevitable that after a company gets so big the conspiracy theorists and "haters" come out of the woodwork and talk about how they "used to be great" and how they've "sold out". All of this is right on time as expected and quite boring. The sooner you realize google doesn't care about your stupid information other than to better its business the better you'll all be. get a life and find something worth while to complain about.

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Peter Thurston — Sat, 26 May 2007 15:42:45 -0000

Wow, this post sure attracts the nutcases:

"Maybe Google fought ’cause it’s run by the government. Get it? It’s trying to gain your trust so that you’d dump more of your personal info into Google and other services that they run. How gullible you are. Sad."

You give the government far too much credit. Are you really talking about the same government that has intelligence failures all the time and goes to war over it?

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Phill — Fri, 25 May 2007 18:02:13 -0000

I've turned this into an argument with Nick Denton, woohoo

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jemix — Fri, 25 May 2007 13:33:10 -0000

I think google is the Big and The Best... :)

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Allie Marsh — Fri, 25 May 2007 11:58:33 -0000

Paczkowski over at Digital Daily has a great take on this as well. Definitely worth a read.
It wasn’t so long ago that Google was a company that could do no wrong. “Everyone loves Google,” Wired wrote in 2001. And at the time, it was true.

Not so today. The company’s enormous success and relentless pursuit of new markets has inspired some in the entrepreneurial culture that produced it to take an evil-empire view of the search-engine phenomenon–one that’s increasingly echoed in the media. To wit, a rather hysterical front-page story in the (London) Independent draws some rather unoriginal comparisons between Google’s efforts to organize the world’s information and Big Brother’s efforts to control it.

Comparisons like these are inevitable, especially when your chief executive has a penchant for making unwittingly Orwellian statements (”We are moving to a Google that knows more about you,” Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Feb. 9, 2005) and
The European Commission’s advisory group on privacy protection is demanding an explanation of your data retention policies. But to see it featured so prominently in the mainstream press–yes, even the press abroad–does seem to suggest that Google is heading for a negative media cycle that might possibly shake up mainstream attitudes about it. Certainly, The European Commission Friday said its advisory group on privacy protection has sent Google Inc. a letter demanding an explanation of the search engine’s privacy policies.
http://digitaldaily.allthin...

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Christopher Coulter — Fri, 25 May 2007 03:00:29 -0000

You know, I read that as a job pitch...

Tote the shaky cam around to John Carpenterish white hair and cobalt-eyed Engineer Cultists, but free lunches made by a chef, hey...

Channel 666? ;)

(I doubt Google'd ever do that, and the USA Government won't bounce, as they have their NSA fingers in deep. Now the European governments, that's a differing story...)

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ET — Thu, 24 May 2007 21:52:37 -0000

I love Google and there stuff. I will continue to use their stuff until either there is something better or they piss me off. Right now i am happy with their products especially Gmail.

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feartheseeds — Thu, 24 May 2007 21:25:53 -0000

Hey... what's the deal? This is a top five WP blog, so where are the cute cats and spelling mistakes?

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Bengt — Thu, 24 May 2007 17:36:23 -0000

The problem about one company growing too large seem to solve itself when it becomes too large it seems it parts having a hard time nowing what the other part is doing thus dissolving since it starts to loose direction. Look at Microsoft they seem to get more and more desperate as open source is growing.

A new way to blog using Google Notebook and Tumblr...
http://internettime.ning.co...

Or do you fear the Google bug will bite you?

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Eats Wombats — Thu, 24 May 2007 16:25:47 -0000

And for a view from London: http://wombatdiet.net

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Bill Hartzer — Thu, 24 May 2007 16:25:34 -0000

I agree with Paul, I get much more traffic from Google than the other search engines, bar none.

In my opinion, Google, as a company, will still try to acquire organizations that make sense for them to acquire--like feedburner. There may be a point in time where the US Government steps in and does something.

As marketers and business owners, I think we fear life without Google more than just the fear of google.

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GG — Thu, 24 May 2007 16:05:02 -0000

@JIM (#15)
You said, "Although let’s be real, all of the search engines. I remember that MSN, Yahoo, and Excite gave info to the gov’t without fighting, while Google apparently did fight against it. And let’s not even get into their conduct in China."

Maybe Google fought 'cause it's run by the government. Get it? It's trying to gain your trust so that you'd dump more of your personal info into Google and other services that they run. How gullible you are. Sad.

Isn't it odd that Google was THE ONLY company allowed to keep their users' info and not give it to the gov?

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GG — Thu, 24 May 2007 16:04:09 -0000

@ JIM You said, "Although let’s be real, all of the search engines. I remember that MSN, Yahoo, and Excite gave info to the gov’t without fighting, while Google apparently did fight against it. And let’s not even get into their conduct in China."

Isn't it odd that Google was THE ONLY company allowed to keep their users' info and not give it to the gov?

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Allen Stern — Thu, 24 May 2007 15:43:23 -0000

Hi Robert - wish you would add my rss to your 622 :)

I have a two good articles for your FOG collection:
My Life without Google:
http://www.centernetworks.c...

and
Big Brother 2007 - what does Google "Not" know about you:
http://www.centernetworks.c...

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shareme — Thu, 24 May 2007 14:45:38 -0000

Robert I do think its a reaction to Google except for the studpi pr stuff..

I think its a natural reaction and concern about web 2.0 and upcoming web 3 technology as far as what are our privacy rights and how do we control them and give them away when we want to..

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dreadsword — Thu, 24 May 2007 14:25:47 -0000

Martin: I think its because Google's market power puts in a position to weild undue influence on the net. Its shaping up to be a nice replay of MSFT's desktop OS monopoly experience from years gone by.

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Martin Edic — Thu, 24 May 2007 14:15:19 -0000

I still have to ask- why does Microsoft get a pass for buying an ad agency (AvenueA/Razorfish)(conflict of interest) and Google get crucified for buying an ad serving software/network company (content agnostic)? If Google had bought aQuantive the world would be in speculation meltdown.
Reminder: Live Search is an advertising business- do they really think their customers want them in a competing situation by going direct to clients via AvenueA?
And another shot: Universal Search is the big story no one is covering well.

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shokk — Thu, 24 May 2007 13:44:13 -0000

Wow, sounds like no one wants to work for Google. Maybe that gives me a better chance! =)

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Mark H — Thu, 24 May 2007 13:38:23 -0000

... if all they're going to use it for is to target advertising better.

I'd rather that than some of the other things people want to use our data for.

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Mark H — Thu, 24 May 2007 13:37:21 -0000

The poll I'm running on my site at http://blog.markhopwood.com... suggests that most people (in my little circle anyway) trust Google a lot more than they trust Government. This could be naive, but I have to ask, what is the harm in Google knowing all this stuff, if you can opt out (indeed a lot of it doesn't happen until you've created one of their accounts) and

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Herm — Thu, 24 May 2007 13:22:42 -0000

Anyone who uses gmail, Google desktop or Google's SaaS applications is getting what they deserve. That goes for Google search as well.

Is it that addicting that we can't just move to another search engine? There are choices.....now I've made mine.

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Pradeep M. Nair — Thu, 24 May 2007 12:38:14 -0000

I guess people are scared about google holding up so much of our information exactly because google tells us that they're holding that information.

I'm sure MSN, Yahoo! and other huge volume site also track behaviour. Think about the potential of websites like Facebook, MySpace etc. which have more info about us than Google (just my guess). One more thing to worry about when the bigger companies gobble up these community spaces - private information.