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What are Blekko's thoughts on 'do no evil'? If they get popular, would they fall into the same trap that Google has, or would they stay pure?
by zaknanny 15y ago
What are Blekko's thoughts on 'do no evil'? If they get popular, would they fall into the same trap that Google has, or would they stay pure?
- rkalla 15y agoThis is an impossible-to-answer question. I do NOT speak for the Blekko company, but while they are small and making $100,000s or millions it is easy to say "We are free, no spying!" (same for DDG). As soon as you take Blekko public and they are making BILLIONS and beholden to stock holders, they won't have a choice but to slowly roll that back just like we are seeing with Google. The market won't let Google stay ambivalent; not with all that potential for profit.
- vasundhar 15y agoI don't subscribe to your way of thinking, I think if they could have they would have already. It is true that there will be some resistance from established organisations like google/yahoo/msn but don't forget they came out of competition themselves and this is just one dimension of possible competing forces. With more awareness and need to be private and isolated there are enough people subscribing to the thought and Change is clearly seen in number of twitter/facebook/ or Anti Google protests happening. Unless Google comes up with a private search, Which I don't see happening, There is no problem what so ever for the DDG and Blekko. There is one interesting blog http://bit.ly/HBR_Blog3 http://bit.ly/HBR_Blog3 which actually contradicts the conventional wisdom to follow shareholders blindly. Love to hear from you Vasundhar Boddapati
- greglindahl 15y agoYou can check out our privacy policy and prefs -- we let you opt out of all ads, out of facebook integration, etc etc, so that we don't collect info about people who don't want it collected.