Don't be evil (Google)

hmmm.... why do all of us use it then?

ALso Google = Big Brother. And just waiting for them to start making games and to suffer publicity in them.

More Chrome, anyone?

I don't use anything Google, atleast not to my knowledge, but then who knows what evil lurks.

wow imagine how boring being google would be

Been saying it for a long time now.... Google wants to know the ins and outs of your cat's arse so it can best target you with pet food ads... Kitty Kat varieties best suited to your feline.

Word has it that Google now wants to get into the waste management industry... and once it own the sewers, your excrement and other bodily waste will be analysed to see what you like to eat and drink, purely for the purpose of targetting you with grocery ads.

This owning the sewers thing is a double edged sword for Google, however, in that its medical care/pharmecueticals division can benefit from the analysis of your excretions.  If you have consipation or diahorrea, Google will know about it... and you will be targetted with ads for IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) treatments and other meds.

Thing is, while this can/could have a positive side - relief for your symptoms - there IS a HUGE downside.  All this data... your personal medical details will be stored in Google memory banks for its search engine.  So much for patient confidentiality... that's gone right out the window.  For example, you ring your boss to say that you won't be in for a few days because of a stomach bug, then he does a Google search and fires you because the test result of your faeces/urine is clear and he's worked out that you're really at the cricket. 

I mean, that's alright if you're an employer (see, more proof that Google is geared to the corporate world, bugger the little people), but workers will suffer, as will cricket and other sporting event attendances.  Yup, crowds/audiences will be down... all thanks to Google.  Can't see sporting venues and/or clubs supporting this latest Google venture, then.

Another thing, Googles bid to rival CNN News will also benefit from this technology.  While other news services would be at a loss as to explain why a certain world leader is behaving erratically, Google News will authoritavely be able to say: "President ******* (name has been edited out to protect the innocent) is behaving erractically this week because he has the shits!"

While this may have its positive side, reliably informing the public and all that, there is also a down side to the dissemination of news gathered from Google's ever invasive, probing, wanting-to-know-it-all technologies.  For example, through its excrement/urine analysis, Google has discovered a wife has been trying to slowly poison her millionaire husband to death, and she gets off scott free because he happens to see it on Google's 6 0'clock news: "Bitch tries to poison wealthy husband", and he dies of a heart attack instead.

And Google claims it isn't/does no evil.

What does this mean in American English?

calling in sick to work to go to a baseball/football/sporting event of your choice and getting caught and fired

What, there's American English???? 

Really???  

I thought there was just English English.... and everybody else (America, Canada, etc) had a borrow of it.

As to your question ^.....

... Doombringer pretty much summed it up.

If Google wants to know so much...we should all just send them a stool sample.

lol! poetic terrorism at its finest...u legend

Yeah, I can see it now... millions upon millions of stool sample jars turning up at Google HQ, and the receptionist saying to all the delivery people: "The lab is down this corridor, fourth on the left."

Bit of a twist on 'bringing them down from the inside', but it works for me.

Hey, news flash.  Google wants to make money, and what they are doing will make a butt load of it.

More power to them...as long as they keep their noses out of my business.

The important thing is how well-substantiated all those claims were.

They don't have to ber substantiated.... everyone knows Google is evil and only in it for the buck.  Dollars (enough of them) will always over-ride morals, scruples, principles... and it's no secret Google has become exceedingly wealthy off the information and backs of others.

Not much different than any other mutlibillion conglomeration. All you can do is choose the lesser evil, like we really have a choice in this.

After I smite them I will retreat to my cave.

Holy paranoia Batman!  Google is no different than any other company in any industry.  Just trying to figure out the best way to make money.  And they do it well.  They provide buttloads of services we all want!  More power to them!

I <3 GOOGLE!

Oh yes it is!  Google would steal its grandmother's purse and sell it back to her.... empty.

Yes!!!  Off the backs of everybody else's information/business.  In the natural world, such a creature is known as a parasite.

I sure as hell don't want them!!!  They are just a draw-card for people to think Google is 'oh so wonderful'.... while underneath those services are data mining/phoning home with your personal information.

I agree!  Like about a hundred gazillion volts.... to melt down their data banks

I Google  

It's 1984 and Google is The Ministry Of Information.

The future lies with the Proles.

Fear not...it's all double-plus ungood.

Just as well that's not THE 'ministry' .... like you go to confession and next thiing yer affair with Mrs. ***** is common internet knowledge.

Combined with the search results detailing yer most intimate medical history (IBS, haemorrhoids and that peculiar rash on yer scrotum), yer life's just not yer own anymore, is it?

What's funny about all this is that everyone is so worried that your lies and cheats will be brought out.  The best way to avoid that?  Don't lie and cheat!  If Google is responsible for someone getting caught cheating on their wife, good.  The bastard should have not cheated and he would have nothing to worry about.

But again, you're all just paranoid.  It's kind of funny, really.

Paranoia will get you through times of no enemies better than enemies will get you through times of no paranoia.

Me, worried about my lies and cheats coming out on Google?  You betcha I am. I'll bet my bottom dollar that Google has assigned s part of its lab to disprove my claims regarding curried cabbage.  They're trying to discredit me... in the hope that nobody will listen when I tell the truth about how evil they are.  Obviously they haven't been able to disprove it... the lab test subject are likely 'barking' away to their hearts content, as should be expected.

BTW, the bit about the confession and the affair with Mrs, ****** was a bit of tongue-in-cheek to suggest that Google sees nothing as sacred... not even a confession.

While I agree with this in part - serves the bastard right if he got caught - but I can not agree with Google data mining and storing intimately personal information to serve it up on the web to anyone and everyone who may or may not be interested.  In other industries/forms of media, Google's information gathering tactics/methods would be in clear violation of several countries privacy acts... but they get away with it because governments and law enforcement love to google.