Comments on: Google and the Trust Issue

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 07 May 2007 09:36:20 +0000

Google is like a big octpous which wants to grab as much as it can with their long tentacle. In a few years everybody will be surprised how much Google knows about us, but now nobody is doing anything against this issue.
Why aren’t there any other search engines on the market which can really take market shares from Google. What Msn and Yahoo do is not more than a joke. If there were serious competitors, Google would have to concentrate more on its core business.

By: Georg

Georg — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:37:23 +0000

Personally, I’m less afraid of Google themselves abusing the data collected via their tracking facilities (such as ads or the new “Web History”, since at least right now, they’re doing fine while “not being evil”.

However, what if Google gets forced by some clever lawyers to fork out the data? For example, if somebody files a sub-poena against them to hand out everybody’s name and/or IP address who has accessed certain pages on (illegal) BitTorrent directories, or worse, what if the government of a country where censorship or other measures against information freedom are a reality forces them to do so (they could simply threaten them to block Google services completely, for example).

With “Web History”, Google knows about every page you visit, even those that neither use any Google service like Adsense or Analytics, nor have been found via the Google search. Something tells me that it would probably suck for the average Chinese web-surfer if Google forked over information that they’ve accessed a dissident blog…

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By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:53:50 +0000

You’re right, Mike. That was odd. What I should have said is “takes it success for granted”.

I fixed it. Thanks!

By: Mike H

Mike H — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:34:11 +0000

“But, as time goes on and Google matures into a corporation that thinks it deserves its great success…”

Weird implication here…that Google thinks, and should think, that it is unworthy of its current success??

By: Johan

Johan — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:20:20 +0000

It would be great to see these doubleclick stats made available for public use.

By: Josh Catone

Josh Catone — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:14:40 +0000

As a public company, I don’t think Google can continue to just do things that “benefit” users. Their goal — their only goal, according to investors — is to make more money. If that means doing a little bit of evil, well… they’ll balk less and less at breaking that original code as time marches on. Public companies just don’t have the luxury of saying no to Wall Street.

By: Long Island

Long Island — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:12:18 +0000

How Google could do this. I think Google will lose some customers

By: heri

heri — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:07:25 +0000

I see now Google as Big Brother

see this for example

This is your life, according to Google

They will be able to know everything you do