Could you elaborate?
Sorry, but I think most people here aren't qualified to comment on something they really don't understand. If you want to educated yourself on it go read "How Microsoft Lost the API War" from "Joel on Software".
Pardon? Congratulations on recommending a self-serving,
single source of information. Are you qualified to comment on the subject? You want me to elaborate? Assuming I have your permission as someone who isn't qualified to comment, I shall do so.
The difference between do no evil Google and Microsoft is, MS are a damn sight less hypocritical about their monopoly position. And abuse thereof. Although I don't need to reference Microsoft really as the reason Google worries me has nothing to do with them.
If the simple fact that Google is rapidly increasing how much it spends on lobbying in the United States doesnt tell you anything, I dont know what else will – ok Google fanboys can now go back to your Google searches for everything, Your GMail with targeted ads based on the content of your mails and put your head back under the pillow. For the rest of us, I am sure we can agree that some scrutiny of a company which has basically won control of the internet, while gaining a very, very large amount of personal users data and their surfing habits, is entirely overdue.
As the Google CEO (Eric Schmidt) himself says, "If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place" – unless of course, that knowledge is personal details of his, obtained by CNET Journalists only via Google searches. Google blacklisted CNET for about a year over this, then again, they really do have to the power to be both evil and hypocritical, whenever it suits. We, the public, have somewhat less choice in blacklisting which Information Google collects from them.
However, Google only use the info they have collected on YOU to sell ads, dont they? No problem there, then.
I'm also worried about a company that analyses 20% of the worlds internet traffic on it's own private network based on proprietary routing protocols, if any one could actually launch a rival to the internet Google certainly could.
And I'm worried about a search company that continually pigeon holes peoples search results into a ever decreasing circle of results, based on what adverts they can target at you, and what people have paid them.
I'm concerned about a company that has the privacy policy that Google does - essentially anything and everything is fair game to help them sell you adverts.
There's a whole host of other reasons, but I doubt you'd listen even if you've read this far. Like most google fans, you don't care what they do with your personal data. I'm afraid I do, and anyone who brings Google down a peg or twenty gets my support.
). A little loose with the facts in places but interesting non the less.
