Don't be evil....
| The title above is the motto of Google. The more paranoid regularly regularly assign evil intent to the big technology corporates such as Google or Microsoft. At the moment, however, it seems that evil is being done to Google by the Bush administration. So far, Google is standing up to the malign 'requests' of the White House (in the specific shape of Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General) to hand over a week's worth of search terms and a million randomly selected addresses from Google's massive database of web addresses. The say the data "would assist the government in its efforts to understand the behavior of current web users [and] to estimate how often web users encounter harmful-to-minors material in the course of their searches". There is a suggestion that other big players in the market (Yahoo! and MSN?) have already complied with similar requests. That would be a pity if true. The domino effect might prove too much for Google, but I hope they resist as far as they are able. |
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