I guess that many of you have seen the video about Google on Youtube – “About the Power of Google”. If you haven’t it’s a video, sort of done in the style of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”, where the people behind the video presents appalling facts about Google. The video begins with giving you the background story on how Google became the largest search engine, thanks to ranking websites by relevance, and the fact that they’re now making huge profits due to their advertising (AdSense and AdWords).
However, you’ll pretty quickly learn that Google controls what information that is to be sorted as relevant and that you should worry about your privacy. Google is said to store all the information that now is on the web and you’ll also learn that if you have Gmail all of your mails are scanned by Google, collecting personal data. “Merely to provide you with relevant text ads” they video asks you. A former CIA agent even claims that Google is cooperating with the American government, including the CIA. And so it goes on…
So, do I buy it? Yes and no… The newly launched browser “Google Chrome” collects and saves all the data on what you’ve been doing online. It can sometimes feel a bit uncomfortable knowing that such a big company sits on so much information about you. However, most other web browsers also withhold this information so I don’t know if I should be so afraid of Google Chrome. It’s always dangerous when one company tries to play God – and Google has a tendency of doing so. Scanning e-mails is always a dangerous thing to do as no one should be able to access your personal mail without the permission from you. As you probably can notice am I a bit split when it comes to the issue of Google. Perhaps it’s one of those companies that you love to hate and at the same time love’s to love…
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2012-02-07
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2012-01-19
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2012-01-18
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2012-01-12
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Commented by: Utombordare, 23 September, 2008
I tried Chrome but I didnt like it. And I dont understand why they have to steal a name from Mozilla. The graphic handler in FireFox is called Chrome.
Commented by: Fahad, 29 September, 2008
Yes! absolutely right. I notice in Google Chrome and beginning age of Google. Now Google has a very expensive office around the world.
Commented by: Brian, 29 September, 2008
Talk about shiting where you eat or biting the hand that feeds you. All of a sudden you guys get all "conspiracy theory" on Google, after years of loyal use. Is it really fair to deny Google to use our user data when we for free uses the search engine to make money and driving traffic to our sites?
Google or Chrome is not the enemy but the hand that is feeding the IT-industry with free money!
Commented by: Web Hosting in India, 21 October, 2008
ofcourse google is a shit company but they are doing good. even i dont like their companies policies and chrome is the worst browser i have used till now