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Google: Staying Friendly Through Stardom
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Posted by: TotalRecall
Wired has an article on some of Google's rough times on the way to the top as a search engine and how they still hold a fair position of popularity among all:
But a funny thing is happening on the way to Internet adulthood - Google's awkward teen years. The company's growth spurt has spawned a host of daunting questions that no data-retrieval system can easily answer. Should Google play ball with repressive foreign governments? Refuse to link users to "hate" sites? Punish marketers who artificially inflate site rankings? Fight the Church of Scientology's attempts to silence critics? And what to do about the cache, Google's archive of previously indexed pages? In April, the German national railroad threatened legal action to remove an obsolete site containing sabotage instructions.
Read on here.
Source: The Tech Report
Posted by: Canis Lupus
Yeah, I read this last month on Wired magazine ... altho Google has taken on the task of policing the content it has access to, personally I don't think this is such a bad thing ... I am rather glad Google is pissing off these kinds of people who look for those kinds of information ...
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