Googlefails – Don’t You Love ‘Em?
As much as I hate to gloat, I think the recent rash of googlefails (including yesterday, today) ties nicely into my ongoing battle to convince people to avoid a google-centric life. If you’ve been using google for as long as you remember, you might try searching with yahoo today. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised [...]
I Love Being Right Re: Google
Since writing my “Why Google Worries Me” article, a swath of similar articles have appeared across the net. Today, a front-page article appeared on Lifehacker with the title “Break Google’s Monopoly on Your Data: Switch to Yahoo Search“. It’s good to see this idea picking up steam…
Why Google Worries Me
Who doesn’t love Google? Between search, Gmail, Google Docs, YouTube, Google News, iGoogle, Google Maps – chances are that you interact with something “google” everyday. But have you really stopped to ponder what kind of company Google is? Maybe not, which is I’m writing this article. Google provides some brilliantly useful services, but like any major company their huge reach and ubiquity lends itself to some worrisome possibilities. Read on to learn more about the new Google and their potentially problematic plans for the future…
Good-bye Google
I’ll spare you the gory details, but lately I have developed major reservations about Google. I know many of you think Google is the benevolent dictator of the internet – but there is nothing benevolent about them. Google is an enemy to freedom, an enemy to open source, an enemy to free-market competition, and unless people stop turning a blind eye to them they are going to do to the internet what Microsoft did to the OS market – monopolize it, then make it suck. So I’m removing all things Google from this site, starting now…
Sometimes I Miss Being a Student (GASP)
It’s not often I say this, but man – being a student has its perks. Take Google’s Summer of Code, for example. KILLER opportunity for any college student with an interest in computers. WordPress in particular has a great write-up on the opportunities available through this program – I’d highly recommend taking a read!
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