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Google isn’t really a search engine anymore. They’re a data harvesting company who then try find ways to profit off sharing that data with you. Google penalise
by Sendotsh 7y ago
Google isn’t really a search engine anymore. They’re a data harvesting company who then try find ways to profit off sharing that data with you.
Google penalises other websites for stealing content or re-hosting stuff without adding value, then goes ahead and does exactly that all the time.
- andai 7y agoGoogle is an organism and uses attack and defense against its perceived enemies.
- Razengan 7y agoA more appropriate analogy would be cancer.
- 9HZZRfNlpR 7y agoIt makes perfectly sense if you read how Google was originally funded. Culture runs from the birth.
- iKevinShah 7y agoAny link for that please?
- 9HZZRfNlpR 7y agoCIA grants. As conspiracy it sounds, it's perfectly public knowledge and true.
- iKevinShah 7y agoAgain, any link even for the conspiracy theory / discussion, as farfetched it seems.
- jacquesm 7y agoIt's actually true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel Whether it is significant or not is another matter entirely.
- PNWChris 7y agoThat link is cool, I wasn't aware the CIA has a literal VC firm! Still, I'm skeptical. The link doesn't really say In-Q-Tel influenced Google directly, I especially don't see evidence for influence during Google's early years. It appears Keyhole (a company G acquired in 2005, who's software became Google Earth) was funded in part by intelligence money. Google went public in 2004, so they were already beholden to public shareholders by the time of that acquisition. Besides, Keyhole just made good mapping software. DARPA funds lots of robotics labs, but I wouldn't say Berkeley and CMU are any more a part of the US intelligence apparatus than I am as a tax payer. Some work they do has utility to the gov, so the gov funded it. That doesn't make their efforts direct intelligence work.
- jacquesm 7y agoThey funded Facebook as well.
- arminiusreturns 7y agoIt annoys me how any mention of the In-Q-Tel relationship to certain tech firms is met with derision and downvotes and accusations of crazy conspiracy theory. It's as if NSL's and Prism were just a blip on the radar people want to pretend isn't happening anymore. Snowdens docs though released in 2013 were from 2007! Imagine how much more embedded and pervasive the system is (which probably just got a name change as is standard when programs similar are revealed to the public). Add in whatever the modern version of Operation Mockingbird is and those companies at the very least are sure to have been infiltrated after the fact. Probably willingly. You'd be surprised how servile people get when men in black suits with 3letter badges show up and say the words "National Security". All these factors and more in aggregate make the probability that there was government influence and involvement highly likely. For those who want just a primer on this complex subject, here is a decent article: https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-goo... Another interesting interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfUm0RxXWxI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfUm0RxXWxI
- jacquesm 7y agoStockholm syndrome variation? We're all so dependent on Google it pays off mentally to pretend they must be on our side.
- rasz 7y agohttps://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance/ https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci... "MDDS was introduced to several dozen leading computer scientists at Stanford, CalTech, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, and others in a white paper that described what the CIA, NSA, DARPA, and other agencies hoped to achieve."