The world of Google

obmar · Site Admin Joined: 14 Apr 2006 Posts: 5697

Google: Should we cheer it or fear it? Posted by Donna Bogatin @ 5:50 pm

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Every day seems to bring another reason to cheer “everyone’s favorite garage band,” Google: Multi-billion dollar acquisitions (YouTube), strategic alliances (Intuit), product introductions (Google Apps)…

Now may be the time to stop the cheering and start the fearing, however. Fear Google? Unthinkable to most, but real to many. Why? Google is steadily realizing its unflinching objective to control the world’s content (information) and then use that content of others to its own strategic and profit objectives while determining how it is made available, stored, manipulated, accessed…

Google proudly proclaims its desire for worldwide domination.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt at the Google Q2 conference call:

we are in the search business, so we need all of the information. We want to partner with people to get information so our search end users can see it. We’re also in the advertising business, and we’d like to provide advertising services to people who have their own proprietary content.

So depending on where we are in that spectrum, we either do an advertising deal or a content deal or a hybrid deal.

But ultimately our goal at Google is to have the strongest advertising network and all the world’s information, that’s part of our mission.

Google defines “all the world’s information” literally.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt at the Search Engine Strategies Conference in August:

If you think about it, all the world's information includes personal information.

Isn’t it time we started thinking about the long-term consequences to businesses and individuals of a consolidation of every piece of public, private, and personal “information” within one $122 billion (and growing) market cap corporation’s “cloud” and worldwide server farms?

The Inquisitor · Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 772

Yes,

I think that Google has outgrown its fun-loving status of yore. They have become part of the infamous big business that has probably bought into yellow journalism.

michaelclark · Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Posts: 3

Hi obmar...

Thanks for posting nice Google image in your first page.
In this article you have targeted Google but don't understand the reason behind it.
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obmar · Site Admin Joined: 14 Apr 2006 Posts: 5697

michaelclark;

You have made me dig into further and here are some things that I found. Wink

Try this

Want some ebooks? Oh, yeah… google does that easily. Another power searching lesson coming right up.

Google: -inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:”index of” +(”/ebooks”|”/book”) +(chm|pdf|zip)

Looks like that could open more from the pandora box.

Try it.

If you use the “index of” string you will find directory listings of specific folders on
servers. An example could be:
‘index of” michaelclark or index.of.michaelclark
which would get you many directory listings of obmar folders. (don’t forget to use the quotes in this
case since you are looking for the entire “index of” string, not just for “index” and “of”)