[slnk_rules]

Google is a wonderfully technically efficient company. Ideological partisanship has sunk better companies than them, though. Whom the gods would destroy, they first make insane proud. Google seems to have the attitude "We can do it because we are Google." Move over, GM.

[VaBthang4]

Great post.

[xcamel]

except...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2148534/posts
and
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2148523/posts

[HighlyOpinionated]

http://www.devvy.net/audio/

http://www.devvy.net/audio/dec08/communitarian_hoax.html

Listen to Devvy Kidd read The Great Communitarian Hoax. Hopefully this will come back into print. It explains exactly what is occurring today in the USofA and how Socialism is spread through Mandatory Community Service and the easy ‘jump’ from there to mindless sheeple accepting Marxism.

Scary stuff. Listen and learn.

[Dick Bachert]

I stopped using Google as first choice search engine months ago — just for this reason.

[Always Right]

Between being overly commercial and outrageously too political, Google has ruined a once great product. I use to be able to find anything no matter how obscure, now I have to wade through a bunch of sites that want to sell me something and certain items are purposely hidden. There could be a big niche for someone who wants to make a clean search engine.

[ChetNavVet]

Google bought You Tube, Sketch Up, and probaly lots of other stuff. In the corporate world, the philosiphy is not to “devide and conquor”, but aquire what cannot be stomped out.

There is nothing inherently evil about what corporations do.

Google seeks to buy out, consolidate, and rule the information world. The fact they have a leftist agenda is really the only thing that makes them evil.

[IrishCatholic]

bookmark for later

[SouthTexas]

Well DUH, grasp of the obvious.

Haven’t used Google in over a year.

[Nateman]

Google will find out , just as the dying lamestream media is, that if you can’t do the job you are supposed to do, people will go elsewhere.

[SouthTexas]

An '06 article on Google's "purging".

[cgbg]

When you offer a consumer a product and suggest it is one thing when it fact it is a radically different thing that is called "consumer fraud".

Let the consumer complaints begin!

If Google wants to avoid this trouble they can try this disclaimer on their web page:

"Warning, we are ideological one-world government socialists--and we have edited our search engine to reflect our values. If you want uncensored information go elsewhere."

[Right Wing Assault]

Good one! From the article.

[craig_eddy]

I used to work across the parking lot from one of Google’s original office buildings. Al Gore was a very frequent visitor. That was all I needed to know.

[ZOOKER]

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[KoRn]

/mark

[MIT-Elephant]

I see Google as a sort of modern, technocratic Communism. They started with this belief they were going to be hip and cool and everything corporate America wasn’t.

Then they started releasing these betas and applications where they made the design decisions, and dictated how people would use the web without regard for user preference in a lot of cases. They started to think they were smarter than not just the competition, but the users.

Then they realized they could make loads of money as a result of being special, oligarchic gatekeepers. Then they got in bed with China to censor the Internet (a true partnership with communism).

Now they are admitting they’re simply manipulating their product results from the inside. Now all the talk about the Democracy of the Internet is hollow. The Ministry of Truth lives.

[FTL]

“Fairness Doctrine” should be rammed down Google’s throat. But of course the “Censorship Doctrine” only applies to Conservatives.

[DoughtyOne]

I like the way they use FoxNews as an example of selective news dissemination.

CNN or the rest of the MSM could be biased could they? LMAO

[Incorrigible]

Here's lots of alternatives to Google offerings:

 

Live Search	A high power alternative to Google
Search and Give	Uses the Live search engine but you can set up an account so that a charity or school of your choosing gets a few cents every time you search!
Clusty Search	This is an alterative that draws from several search engines including Google unfortunately
Live Toolbar	Need a toolbar alternative, use this one
MSN Video	An alternative to YouTube for hosting your uploaded videos
Live Maps	Need driving directions, this will work (Though I'll concede Google has an extra feature that's nice)
Virtual Earth	An excellent 3D mapping program
Live Mail Live Mail Client	Plenty of space for all your email and a nice client for it as well!
Live Spaces	A place to blog, host photos, store files, etc
Photosynth	A very cool way of bringing dimensional perspective to your photographs

Please note that Ask.com and About.com are owned by the New York Times.

 

[WellyP]

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