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Category Archives: Google
Omar Hamoui needs a clue.
In the history of technology and innovation, it’s clear that competition delivers the best outcome. Artificial barriers to competition hurt users and developers and, in the long run, stall technological progress. The company that dominates search, that buys companies and so obliterates the competiton who cannot compete on development and that breaks the law is [...]
About Google. Again.
Safe Browsing Diagnostic page for example.com What is the current listing status for example.com? This site is not currently listed as suspicious. What happened when Google visited this site? Google has not visited this site within the past 90 days. Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware? Over the [...]
One term for some.
“If Google goes Baidu will be the only giant in China’s search engine market. A monopolised market can’t be healthy,” said Cao Junbo, chief analyst at iResearch. Guardian Google’s market share outside of China: 85.3% http://marketshare.hitslink.com or 87% according to HitWise. So who should really be concerned?
I used this as a header a couple of years ago and despite what Google now say I still believe it to be true. If you aren’t sure, email their Support and ask…
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Thanks Google
As far as I’m concerned, Google Groups is dead. What is a Usenet Newsgroup? Usenet is an online bulletin board system that began at Duke University in 1979. Usenet users can post messages to newsgroups that can be read (and responded to) by anyone who has access to the system through a newsreader. Over the [...]
Google wants to tell you what to think
Well, there goes “neutrality”. Official: Google wants to tell you what to think • The Register.
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Dr Google wants to sell you meds.
Google: When I first started working on Google Health, I was shocked by how hard it is for people to access their own medical records. I wondered why that’s the case when it’s so easy to access other types of personal information like bank transactions, cell phone records, and utility bills. In many states you [...]
Blogger: a help-free site
I find yet another blogspot blog stealing my posts. I login and decide to see if Google have yet changed their absolutely stupid rules regarding stolen content displayed on their domain: See the Help link? Takes you here: http://help.blogger.com/bin/static.py?page=start.cs See the Help Center link? Takes you here: So not only do Google help spammers and [...]
Why I stopped reading Usenet
And it’s not like these are isolated examples.

Google. Bastards.