Google's Gone Evil

AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
edited February 14, 2007 in The Big Picture
http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_s_gone_evil/who
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  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,951 moderator
    edited December 29, 2006
    No one fights fair.
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  • claudermilkclaudermilk Registered Users Posts: 2,756 Major grins
    edited December 29, 2006
    Nice. :nah And they're so blatant about it, too (psst! hey buddy, wanna cheap knockoff photo sharing service? deal.gif)
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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,939 moderator
    edited December 29, 2006
    I'm not sure I agree that it's evil. If you google 'photosharing', sure, you'll
    get picassa at the top. But that's a recommendation or sponsered link which
    is not the same as the search result. What's wrong with pimping your
    product on your web site? And it's cleary id'd as not search results.

    I don't have an issue with it. I would if Google were doing anything
    special to get say Picassa to the top of the search stack.
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  • mmrodenmmroden Registered Users Posts: 472 Major grins
    edited January 1, 2007
    Yeah, this doesn't really bother me much, I must admit.

    Say you owned the yellow pages. Why not give yourself an ad for your photography business in that section? You could pay yourself for the ad, if you wanted, I suppose. But, if the whole book is devoted to your services, then the book is useless for its stated purpose, so no one would use it.
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  • LuckyBobLuckyBob Registered Users Posts: 273 Major grins
    edited January 1, 2007
    Personally I don't have an issue with it either, but it does kind of fly in the face of the spirit of their mission statement. I'll grant it's technically not a search result, but it still is the first thing a person sees after a search.
    Google wrote:
    It is a core value for Google that there be no compromising of the integrity of our results. We never manipulate rankings to put our partners higher in our search results. No one can buy better PageRank. Our users trust Google's objectivity and no short-term gain could ever justify breaching that trust.
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  • wlrivwlriv Registered Users Posts: 58 Big grins
    edited February 14, 2007
    this REALLY bothered me when i read it. i wrote a bulletin on my myspace (i have a couple friends who work at google), wrote google and showed several co-workers. ive always been a huge google supporter.

    i checked it today, and it seems that they have done away with 'playing favorites'

    i dont know why my text is coming out underlined haha.
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