Arvind Narayanan wrote on Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 06:42:07PM +0530:
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| about. The existence of googlebombing is the greatest testament to the
| NON-EVILNESS of google, and is free speech at its finest. Far from
| nobody
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Pray how you figured google is NON-EVIL? (and why CAPS ON?)
This article might be a good eye-opener:
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=448
<quote>
The proposal would offer individuals large e-mail storage in exchange
for the ability to scan all private emails in order to insert ads that
might be related to the ongoing personal discussions.
[snip]
Google claims that computerized scanning of e-mails is nothing new
because its service performs some essential function as antivirus and
anti-spam software, which has to scan e-mail text regularly. No
employee of the company actually reads the e-mail while doing so.
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Given the fact that gmail wants to read your mails (or atleast it
intended to read your mails at some point of time before this privacy
issue came up), i would certainly not look at it as an anti-spam
measure. Infact they would be spamming me! (ok, its not "spam". its
"ADs". Whatever, I wouldn't be comfortable with an AD on body-part
enhancement when I'm writing a mail to Dr.Mathrubhootham)
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| being able to explain how it happened, it is extremely well known how
| pagerank works. The fact that google won't deviate from their
| published algorithm even under political or other pressure says a lot
| about their integrity.
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Really? How is it a "fact" that google wont deviate frm its published
algorithm? I dont want to sound harsh, I cannot help though: Do you
even know if its algorithm hasn't changed / has changed since two
months?
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| I don't know if this is a weak attempt at humor or you are under the
| impression that we live in a fairy-tale world where companies,
| especially publicly traded ones, act out of philanthropic motives.
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Thats exactly my point. Google certainly does some cool technology.
Its not logical to assume that google is NON-EVIL because its doing
cool-technology. GMail certainly does not sound NON-EVIL to me.
cheers,
-Suraj
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