Do you really know Google?

The Radio Patriot ^ | May 26, 2011 | Andrea Shea King

[TEXOKIE]

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[b4its2late]

Google is not the company it claims to be. Evolving from an information servant to master, the company's unprecedented centralization of information, tracking, and profiling, is destroying privacy while threatening our security and way of life.

You are not Google's customer -- you are its products -- lab rats to be monitored and tracked before having your personal information laundered to advertisers - and maybe even shared with the government.

Unless you use Ghostery!

[Fido969]

Facebook too!

[TEXOKIE]

What is Ghostery?

[MNDude]

That’s why when I come out with my new company\product, DisinformationU, Google’s information on you will be rendered worthless.

This product will randomly browse Google in your name to make it appear that you are a transgendered turnip farmer interested in becoming Buddhist Monk in Guatemala. Then it will upload crap about you all across the information so 99% of the information about you on the Web will be garbage.

[FourPeas]

Awwww, but it’s such fun doing that all on my own.

[Alex Murphy]

You are not Google's customer -- you are its products -- lab rats to be monitored and tracked before having your personal information laundered to advertisers - and maybe even shared with the government.

Excellent summary.

[Elendur]

brilliant!

(...but i stopped using Google years ago,
when i saw they were playing politics with searches...
these people are progressives first, no matter what industry or job they are in.
they are as tenacious and dedicated as the Islamists...)

[winodog]

Twitter become popular overnight with all news outlets using it. Know I suspect the entire world wide web is just that and I am on the reeducation list

[goodnesswins]

Don’t any of you guys use Firefox???

[Revolting cat!]

The point is, can they sell you anything you don’t want or need?

[nascarnation]

I use Firefox.

[goodnesswins]

Do you use the “privacy” mode?

[cynwoody]

You can always use Yandex, instead (if you don't mind if Kommittee watches you search). They went public yesterday.

[cynwoody]

Try this search and see whose post is now first.

Guess the GOOG needs to work on its supposed news filter, right? er, left?

[nascarnation]

likely not since I don’t know what it is?

[goodnesswins]

Which version you using....I’m on FF 4....and if you click on the Firefox tab, you’ll see “private browsing”....makes it so you have to re-login to places a lot....but I think it only makes where you’ve been ON your computer invisible...but, they could be found if an employer or gov’t really wanted to find them....I’m new at FF...

[brityank]

Privacy mode is only good for your PC, not on the web:

Private Browsing allows you to browse the Internet without saving any information about which sites and pages you’ve visited.

Private Browsing does not make you anonymous on the Internet. Your internet service provider, employer, or the sites themselves can still track the pages you visit.

Get AdBlock Plus and NoScript for FF.

[adorno]

What is needed is a better way for people to find news and information, and that doesn’t track people’s whereabouts or their information or what they’ve searched for. Perhaps a non-search-engine format would be better.