Yay for Google!

POSTED BY: Khyron
UPDATED: Monday, February 27, 2006 20:45
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KHYRON

Monday, February 20, 2006 6:29 PM

Nice to see somebody that matters standing up to this administration's imbecilic requests and demands, even if the actual request by the DoJ was fairly immaterial, and wouldn't have helped them one bit anyway. But it's about the principle of the thing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4731640.stm

JONUS

Monday, February 20, 2006 8:45 PM

Bush is a Nazi.

Attack me, not my opinion.

CAUSAL

Monday, February 20, 2006 8:51 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Jonus:
Bush is a Nazi.

Attack me, not my opinion.

Are you actually inviting ad hominem attacks?

Very well then. Your outer-garments smell faintly of garlic!

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SIGMANUNKI

Monday, February 20, 2006 9:03 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Khyron:

Nice to see somebody that matters standing up to this administration's imbecilic requests and demands, even if the actual request by the DoJ was fairly immaterial, and wouldn't have helped them one bit anyway. But it's about the principle of the thing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4731640.stm

And then there's us Canadians putting a wrench in the works as well:

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/16/0334232

Mwaaaa haaaa haaaa!!!

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STDOUBT

Monday, February 20, 2006 9:11 PM

Sorry y'all, but Google is EVIL.
They help the Chinese put people in prison,
and help to bolster the Great Firewall.
As for 'standing up' to the US gov. regarding
user's searches/tracking etc., it's simply
posturing, not to mention free advertizing.

Google's cookies don't expire until 2038, and
do track *your* unique browsers' searches.
I recommend clusty.com, whos cookies expire per-
session, plus they provide (IMO) better results!

Personally, I use the Google Scraper:
http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm
Actual Google results without ads, and without
tracking.
EDIT:God bless Canada! You people freakin' rock.

OLDENGLANDDRY

Monday, February 20, 2006 10:11 PM

Yep, Google stood up to the DOJ and thats great but they caved in to the chinese because it was just too big a market opportunity.
Still, the Chinese will be ruling the world in a couple of decades so it's understandable that they'd be nervous.

DREAMTROVE

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 3:22 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Jonus:

Bush is a Nazi.

All Godwin aside, I thought about this post. I think this isn't a political statement. It's am objective factual one. It may be wrong, or it may not be. To some extent it's true, to some extent it's not.

Bush, for instance, is in no way anti-semitic, or racist in any way. Katrina aside. He's anti-poor, sure.

But his policies draw heavily from statist regimes of the past including WWII Germany. Need I say Reichstag Fire, Emergency Powers, etc.?

I think, objectively, this is an objective statement, with some validity, just as when I said "Bush is a Democrat" or "Bush is Clinton" Both are only true to some degree, just as this one is try to some degree.

DREAMTROVE

Tuesday, February 21, 2006 3:24 AM

Evil is so subjective.
I love the term though "Great Firewall"

THEINCOMPARABLENOTION

Friday, February 24, 2006 11:27 PM

This was an audacious move by Google, refusing to oblige the senseless demands made of them. They really couldn't formulate a compelling reason why the search records were needed, as noted in the article. It does make one wonder though, if they have permitted the American government to glean information from their search history in the past.

Also, I agree, the Chinese government is very intimidating.

STILLFREE

Saturday, February 25, 2006 6:22 PM

Stdoubt, thank you for the search engine links. Very nice.

China is a pretty opressive regime. Yes, they're better than they used to be in many ways. Still doesn't make what they're doing right. What bothers me on a personal level is the strong signs that the US government is gearing up to crack down on the net, China style. Can anyone say Alliance?

"Why do they fight us? Why don't they want to be civilized?"

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