http://www.google-watch.org

[G_j]

someone just turned me on to this site.
pretty interesting...
http://www.google-watch.org

A look at how Google's monopoly, algorithms,
and privacy policies are undermining the Web.

[Selwynn]

1. Well, I love google :)

[G_j]

4. I wonder

about dogpile.com and wisenut.com, I use them fairly often.

[JailBush]

2. Fortunately, Google's owners are said to be fairly liberal and

decent people. On the other hand, Goggle is undergoing a transformation, and it was rumored that Microsoft was seeking to acquire it. If Microsoft DID get its hands on Google one day, GOD HELP US.

[drfemoe]

3. that will be the day

I start using alltheweb.com all the time.

[G_j]

8. blocking indymedia

I read a story here that Google had recently decided not to link to indymedia.

[karlschneider]

15. Did you bother to check? Here's a google return

notice the first cite out of a couple million
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=indymedia&btnG=Google+Search

[alexwcovington]

5. Google is far from the only search engine

www.alltheweb.com is almost as good.

People use Google because it is the best at digging up the obscurities of the internet -- as once AltaVista was.

Yahoo and Microsoft are going to be more than enough competition to keep each other honest. Only a fascist government could lock them all down.

[bobbieinok]

6. www.alltheweb.com is blocked as 'adult material'

by S4F technologies in Tulsa OK

www.s4f.com

[alexwcovington]

7. Evil filter bastards

EVIL! FILTER!! BASTARDS!!!

[G_j]

9. SCROOGLE

From the website:
no cookies | no search-term records | access log deleted after 7 days

NOTICE: Since 18 November 2003, thousands of links to big and small commercial sites in English are mysteriously missing from Google's top 100. For these searches, you should be using Scroogle.
Enter your Google search terms:
http://www.google-watch.org/cgi-bin/proxy.htm
-----------------------------------------------

[ldoolin]

10. Google, a privacy disaster waiting to happen

I have my own personal grudge against Google for their archiving/caching policies. Google is a personal privacy disaster waiting to happen. Somebody needs to sue them and shut their website caching and Google Groups archives down for good.

Now, Daniel Brandt who runs Google Watch has his own reasons for not liking Google, which has to do with their website ranking algorythm. That's not why I have a grudge against Google, but the more the merrier.

If the Bush/Ashcroft regime were to try and invent the ultimate data mining system and computerized dossier for the FBI to keep easily searchable dossiers on every American, they wouldn't have to, because Google has already done it.

Use www.teoma.com instead.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

11. Google is a wealthy, powerful corporation

Don't be fooled by any word-of-mouth marketing that they are a "liberal" corporations or any such nonsense. The amount of data they have on individual Americans is *priceless* to the intelligence community, and they have no problems with selling that data to whomever pays the most.

[messiah]

12. I am a webmaster

and Google has just went through a dramatic change of helping larger corporate sites like Amazon and dropping small business type websites like mine.

[G_j]

14. so if I were to search for your

site with Google, I wouldn't find it?

[bpilgrim]

13. http://GlobalFreePress.net makes good use of googles reach

http://GlobalFreePress.net ;->

sounds like a blog is the thing to have if your tryin to get noticed online... nuttin wrong wit dat :evilgrin:

thank GORE he 'invented' the internet :bounce:

peace