Conspiracy theories about google?

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Are there many anti-google groups around? I'm just presuming since they control so much information what sort of anti-google theories have circulated, or how google would answer these etc.

Seems kind of interesting, to me anyhow!

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

MARISSA MARCHANT!

People bitching about ex-CIA people there etc

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

google are ate teh governments

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

Jew-gle, morelike

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

Various right-wing types complain that Google is too lefty for them, actually. They would.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

I have read articles suggesting that Google are the new Microsoft, but all that stuff about how they are in league with the Shriners is new to me. It is however a bit weird how pro-Google people I know become when they get jobs with them, almost like they have been reprogrammed or something.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

Mind you, the last time I looked Google had me down as the world's leading expert on Cambodian pop music, so it's not all bad.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

i go to school at the University of Washington. we have asshole speakers from Microsoft on campus more often than some of the Football team shows up. without fail, last year, every Microsoft speaker had some bad things to say about Google. i wonder why? so to answer, yeah, paranoid losers who work at Microsoft are perpetuating the rumors and conspiracy theories every chance they get. ever read the Room 9 blog?

― fran (brother loves dub), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

I had a google conspiracy theory. I thought the reason gmail was still in invitation-only beta after more than two years was because they used the resultant invitation pattern data to build up a picture of connections between users. But then I realised they could do this just with emails themselves. Still, it's odd, especially when they go after sites that operate as gmail inviation exchanges.

But go to http://www.google-watch.org for the real thing.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:32 (eighteen years ago)

Google caused Building 7 to collapse

― kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

google ate my hamster.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com/

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

i remember reading something about how google was buying up all the "black fiber", whatever the hell that is

― zappi (joni), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

Their results don't seem to be as accurate as they used to be, but maybe that's just my perception of things.

― GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

Jew-gle, LOL

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

My Google doesn't include links to cached sites anymore!

― c('°c) (Leee), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

this is not a conspiracy theory, but it does give me pause. (you could build a pretty good conspiracy theory on top of it.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

...but all that stuff about how they are in league with the Shriners is new to me

they're up to no good funding circuses and children's hospital's, oh no!

― de latebloomer's 2015 youth crew revival (latebloomer), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

perhaps those fez hats hide SLIMY ILLUMINATI LIZARDMEN HORNS

GOOGLE IS AN ANCIENT LIZARDMEN WORD FOR 'HUMANS TASTE GOOD!'

― de latebloomer's 2015 youth crew revival (latebloomer), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

gypsy, that's just the normal, everyday conspiracy of interlocking business interests. For-profit media will always look first to protect its profitability, and only secondarily (if that) to serving some sort public interest in the gathering and presentation of information. Advertisers have always striven to restrict the contents of the media they subsidize - with great success I should add.

The model of the 'crusading journalist' was built on a newspaper business that charged a fee for its product and therefore was somewhat beholden to serving the tastes and needs of its patrons, not simply kow-towing to its advertisers. That was a quirk of the business model for mass circulation newspapers and nothing inherent in the nature of journalism.

The 'crusading journalist' tradition later carried over to radio and television because of a second quirk - the ruling that the airwaves were public property and therefore could be regulated by the government, followed by the rapid expansion of commercial radio during the New Deal era, when federal regulation tended to emphasize the common weal. Reagan overturned that model pretty completely.

Google would be swimming against a strong current if it didn't accept the right of advertisers to supress any content they found objectionable.

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

i wouldn't go that far. most news publications (as opposed to lifestyle publications) still keep advertisers on a relatively short leash. of course people can buy space in the travel section rather than the A section, etc. but still, the idea is that you're buying access to the reader of the entire product.

by breaking it down to the level of specific stories (or specific blogposts) so that the operator actually gets less money for every person who reads about lebanon rather than home improvement, the google model (at least as presented in that article) provides a new set of incentives and disincentives for what content to put online.

i actually think it's a simple-minded and flawed model (surely people who want to know what's going on in lebanon are a demographically desirable audience to some advertiser) and one that will probably either evolve or be superseded. it just caught my eye.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

Their results are starting to suck on anything that could possibly be commercial. Want information on LASIK surgery or doctor ratings or anything else? No dice, too many thousands of repeater blogs and commercial sites to work through, even with specific locales.

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 22:25 (eighteen years ago)

most news publications still keep advertisers on a relatively short leash.

Most news publications still use the the reader-pays-for-a-copy business model, or, in some cases, have only recently edged away from it with a certain timidity. Broadcast, cable or internet news providers mainly use the advertiser-pays-for-viewers model and thus are less able to withstand advertiser pressure.

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

But go to http://www.google-watch.org for the real thing.

I like google watch watch!

― HPSTRKRFT (haitch), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 23:22 (eighteen years ago)

It was google on the grassy knoll with the candlestick.

― Forgot My Pencil (Forgot My Pencil), Thursday, 3 August 2006 01:48 (eighteen years ago)

The US Government have got dozens of crashed Googles in Area 51

― A Poodle Under One Arm, A Two Foot Salami Under The Other (g-kit), Thursday, 3 August 2006 10:26 (eighteen years ago)

From that Google Watch site ;

"Almost every time Google Watch is mentioned on any forum or blog, an anonymous elf comes along and adds a link to Mr. Beasley's watch-watch site"

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 3 August 2006 12:00 (eighteen years ago)

seven years pass...

Google Buys Drone Company Titan Aerospace

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 02:52 (eleven years ago)

Oooo! I wonder if they're hiring!

Oh wait, they're in New Mexico. Screw that, then.

― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 05:24 (eleven years ago)

drone pilots drinking smoothies

― schlump, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 05:28 (eleven years ago)

one month passes...

Google S.E.C. Filing Says It Wants Ads In Your Thermostat and Car

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 23 May 2014 00:27 (eleven years ago)

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