google - Don't be evil they said

mike65 · 07-10-2011 02:38PM #1

What the hell is going on at google towers? They have taken the best web search engine and are making poop of it, they mess up images, dropped real time news from twitter, are desperately trying to track your every move and "integrate", in their latest wheeze they have moved the page cache/similar feature to the top of the right hand preview column. And that right hand preview column sucks away! *loading*

STOP IT!

Seachmall · 07-10-2011 02:40PM

Do not speak ill of the Google!!

smash · 07-10-2011 02:40PM

It's a free service and it still works... I don't see the problem.

maygitchell · 07-10-2011 02:41PM

Google.com>Images>Search "upskirt"> Safesearch off

Nope, still working for me

blaze1 · 07-10-2011 02:42PM

Is there another search engine?

I was only thinking about this the other day as if I've nothing else to do.. Does anyone still use yahoo or msn anymore?

Wetai · 07-10-2011 02:42PM

I think you've mistaken AH for Google's support forums.

OutlawPete · 07-10-2011 02:43PM

Altavista all the way.

maygitchell · 07-10-2011 02:44PM

OutlawPete wrote: »

Altavista all the way.

Interesting, does it search angellfire websites?

chin_grin · 07-10-2011 02:46PM

Do you know what would be a nice ironic touch if you were posting this from google chrome.

Iron is where it's at.

http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chrome_vs_iron.php

Snakeblood · 07-10-2011 02:46PM

Ask Jeeves. If you can't ask a snooty English butler, I'm not interested. ANSWER ME IN RETURN FOR THE 800 YEARS OF OPPRESSION.

mike65 · 07-10-2011 02:46PM

LiamN wrote: »

I think you've mistaken AH for Google's support forums.

Nope this is definitely After Hours. (like google care what users think)

hooradiation · 07-10-2011 02:48PM

mike65 wrote: »

Nope this is definitely After Hours. (like google care what an exceptionally vocal minority think)

Fixed that for you.

Blazer · 07-10-2011 02:49PM

and you believed them?
Google will sell your soul in a heartbeat...actually they already do, how do you think they make their money?

I always had to laugh at the android fanboys who claimed Apple/Microsoft were Satan's spawn and keeping you in a locked in environment while they supported a company that tracks all your emails sent within gmail and offers your ads based on this and sells your profile data to various companies allowing them to target you for advertisments.

Wibbs · 07-10-2011 02:51PM

I use this crowd for my search page http://www.startpage.com/eng/protect-privacy.html

hooradiation · 07-10-2011 02:52PM

Did targeted advertising suddenly become worse than Hitler or something?

I must have missed that.

General General · 07-10-2011 02:53PM

mike65 wrote: »

What the hell is going on at google towers? They have taken the best web search engine and are making poop of it, they mess up images, dropped real time news from twitter, are desperately trying to track your every move and "integrate", in their latest wheeze they have moved the page cache/similar feature to the top of the right hand preview column. And that right hand preview column sucks away! *loading*

STOP IT!

Yahoo mail & altavista search ftw.

What's twitter?

chin_grin · 07-10-2011 02:53PM

hooradiation wrote: »

Did targeted advertising suddenly become worse than Hitler or something?

I must have missed that.

Thought that was common knowledge, no? :pac:

Standard Toaster · 07-10-2011 02:54PM

Google posted a fix for that a couple of days ago.

4leto · 07-10-2011 02:55PM

They just keep giving us great things for free.

But in return we give up part of our anonymity, seeing I have nothing to hide, I think that is a good deal.

Cormic · 07-10-2011 02:56PM

User complains about free service they are not forced to use. First World problems -> http://whitewhine.com/

chin_grin · 07-10-2011 02:56PM

This script includes a nice little option to "disable google tracking my results".

Cormic wrote: »

User complains about free service they are not forced to use. First World problems -> http://whitewhine.com/

Prefer www.reddit.com/r/firstworldproblems myself.

hooradiation · 07-10-2011 02:59PM

chin_grin wrote: »

Thought that was common knowledge, no? :pac:

Like a lot of things that are 'common knowledge' it's stupid and wrong.

Protip kids, all advertising is targeted - and seeing as I can't reasonably expect a free product on the scale of Google to be ad-free I'd rather have advertising that is for things I might conceivably want rather than something I don't.

Kadongy · 07-10-2011 03:50PM

The image search is a bad copy of how the results have been displayed for ages by bing

Mike 1972 · 07-10-2011 04:14PM

4leto wrote: »

But in return we give up part of our anonymity

If you want to talk about loss of anonymity look at all those organisations that now set up a facebook page in lieu of a proper website.

4leto wrote: »

seeing I have nothing to hide

Yes you do

Naos · 07-10-2011 04:25PM

smash wrote: »

It's a free service and it still works... I don't see the problem.

If someones supplying something and you're getting it for free - you're not the customer, you're the product.

Seachmall · 07-10-2011 04:36PM

Naos wrote: »

If someones supplying something and you're getting it for free - you're not the customer, you're the product.

I'm no more a "product" for using Google than I am a "product" for watching ads on TV.

"Target Market" is the correct term, but I guess it's not as melodramatic.

07-10-2011 04:43PM

hooradiation wrote: »

Did targeted advertising suddenly become worse than Hitler or something?

I must have missed that.

The stuff I search for often confuses the hell out of targeted adverts, nothing advertised is of any interest to me at all. :pac:

starch4ser · 07-10-2011 04:46PM

I'm a Googler and i'm highly offended by your anti Google sentiment. Stop it right now you Douchebag.

Steodonn · 07-10-2011 05:08PM

Do not question google

They know all your secrets

MungBean · 07-10-2011 05:15PM

I think theres a huge opportunity for another search engine to grab a share of the market from people looking to ditch google. I thought Bing would do it but Microsoft arnt known for being the most innovative bunch.

Why hasnt Apple tackled it ? With a slogan like "We wont track your every move!" it would probably knock google for six within a month of release.

PS. An online forum that doesnt give me 503 errors every single time I try to post might do well too :mad:

4leto · 07-10-2011 05:55PM

Mike 1972 wrote: »

If you want to talk about loss of anonymity look at all those organisations that now set up a facebook page in lieu of a proper website.

Yes you do

Well then
Now that it is out in the open I am not worried.

Besides our anonymity has been chipped away for a while now, you would be amazed at what Tesco know about you.

This is it, big brother is here, with our computers our smartphones, facial recognition CC cameras (coming soon) ETC.

And it wasn't put in position by an autocrat, no, we put it there and we even paid for it. George Orwell never seen that coming.

google - Don't be evil they said

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