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More and more Google starts to suck ass
Google Snubs Tech News Outlet CNET
SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. is refusing to speak with reporters at CNET's online news site after it ran a story that used Google's chief executive to illustrate how easily the company's search engine finds personal information.
ADVERTISEMENTGoogle told News.com, the online tech news service of CNET Networks Inc., last week that it would not speak to any of its reporters for a year, according to News.com's editor.
Google was angered by a story last month that focused on potential threats the search engine leader's product poses to personal privacy, said Jai Singh, the News.com editor-in-chief.
Now dont get me wrong, Googles technologies are still best of breed and innovative and just plain wow - better than anyone elses. However recent moves like this one, all sorts of games with terms and *retroactive* changes to such in AdSense, things like firing people for pretty silly and hypocritical reasons and some lawsuits and such indicate that Google has slipped past "above that corporate nonsense" type company into the 800lb corporate Gorilla realm.
And dont get me wrong about this news.com thingy either. I could care less if Google decided to block communication with news.com, its the REASON they did it which is enormously arrogant and stupid and thats the problem I have with it. News.com peeps used GOOGLE (public info) to showcase a real issue, personal info on search engines, and Google faults them for that? News.com did not "hack" their way into any private info and divugle it, quite the contrary. For this reason I think I will *try* to start to Yahoo! a bit more (try because Google still kicks ass in the search world, oh well).
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RE: More and more Google starts to suck ass
Hey you should give that new MSN search a try...
RE: More and more Google starts to suck ass
Yeah I guess I might want to get all my email off of gmail too, *before* I write stories like this ;).
But hell Yahoo! "Mail Plus" without graphical ads (arghhhhhhhh - text ones are fine with me, dont even notice em, graphics are henious) costs a whopping 20 bucks a year (and its analagous to gmail, sorta, no more ads and 2GB storage).
RE: More and more Google starts to suck ass
Ok, I cant do it.
Yahoos "my yahoo" thing is sort of on the correct path, but pretty poorly implemented. If I could just change the FONT that would help it a ton, but in all of the "customize" stuff you cant set fonts. And it has a beta RSS thing, even with OPML support, but the rest of the "modules" are pretty dated looking.
The Yahoo! search just isnt as relevant to my brain as is the Google stuff. That and I cant get to "groups" from Y, which I use frequently on G.
The Yahoo! mail just isnt anywhere near as nice as gmail in look or function or COST.
And as dumb and unfounded in reason as it is, I want to have sort of "one" provider, search, mail, maps, groups, so on. In the past, before Google Maps, I used Yahoo only for its maps (much better than Mapquest) - still pretty good at driving directions. Now I am trying to use Yahoo for search, maps and potentially email, but the search and email just dont compete with Google.
Therefore out of pathetic selfish flailing I take it all back, Google is the best company ever (please dont yank my free email ;)).
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RE: More and more Google starts to suck ass
Ok the "My Yahoo" page sucked for los of reasons, one of them as fundamental as the font they used. Today its all new, much better, the layout and fonts, etc, all look like their new RSS news tab thing, MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH better. Props to Yahoo! for getting that updated (in only like 8 years too).