3 posts tagged “google”
I looked up my apartment on Google Earth and you can see my garabge can. Cooooool!
Congratulations Google, on another awesome achievment.
"When we launched Google Talk, some people told us what a great idea it'd be to add chat to Gmail. True that. So a couple of us Google Talk engineers approached the Gmail team. They were excited about the idea, and we got to work immediately -- spending a lot of not-so-lazy Sundays huddled in a conference room ... "
"Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." http://www.google.com/corporate/
Google's noble goal and unparalleled ability to achieve that goal has been an inspiration since the day I learned of it. Now, they have taken their greatest virtue, destroyed it, and apologized for it. All for the sake of their philosophical enemies, who want to destroy independence and liberty by making knowledge universally inaccessible. It breaks my heart. It's like watching Hercules in his madness, except in Google's case it is self-induced. I feel betrayed.
Update [7.22.2005]: To remove expired news link. See comments for summary.
Comments Posted to Original Blog
The Yahoo news link has expired. What was it about?
Wednesday, July 20, 2005 3:21:00 PM
Sorry, I can't find that article anymore. I should have printed a copy of it for reference.
Anyway, in September 2004 Google self-censored their news search engine by disabling the links to news items that the Chinese government does not want their people to see. I'm pretty sure Chinese internet users can still see the headlines of a search, but they can't get to the article.Google did this because if they wouldn't have the Chinese government would have blocked all of GoogleNews or maybe even all of Google.
I found out because last June Microsoft also censored themselves in order to retain the Chinese market. That (and other) news items mentioned Google's previous betrayal along with Yahoo!.
Saturday, July 23, 2005 5:00:00 AM