This whole thing with the U.S. Gov trying to get info from Google about it's users searches...probably regarding searches for porn...can't possibly end well for me.
Google would be nice if it were really trying to protect some individual citizen. But the information it is 'protecting' is worth big money. Funny, you can buy books about how to get your site ranked higher by Google. Certain marketers consider it to be an advantage. AOL, Yahoo!, and MSN have already turned over data to the govt. Placement on their search results must not be such a hot item...
Everyone seems to suspect that the govt is really more interested in seeing how porn sites figure out how to bypass filters. Me, I suspect that the govt is concerned with obtaining a precedent that it might use later in totally unrelated cases.
Seems strange that, in the context of this case, the only thing standing between us and a total electronic panopticon is a mathematical algorithm. BWDIK
Originally posted by johnsville: Google would be nice if it were really trying to protect some individual citizen. But the information it is 'protecting' is worth big money. Funny, you can buy books about how to get your site ranked higher by Google. Certain marketers consider it to be an advantage. AOL, Yahoo!, and MSN have already turned over data to the govt. Placement on their search results must not be such a hot item...
Everyone seems to suspect that the govt is really more interested in seeing how porn sites figure out how to bypass filters. Me, I suspect that the govt is concerned with obtaining a precedent that it might use later in totally unrelated cases.
Seems strange that, in the context of this case, the only thing standing between us and a total electronic panopticon is a mathematical algorithm. BWDIK
You know the meaning of the word of "panopticon"...which I sorta did. But I had to look it up to verify.
Either Google is doing a bang up job keeping their proprietary information and browsing algorithms private, or the NSA is doing a terrible job at theirs (obtaining the data clandestinly[sp?]).
Since the CIA, the NSA and the FBI and the Bush administration are so buddy-buddy lately, you would think that they need not even ask anymore. But they either had the nerve to ask, or it is some reverse psychology PR move that has gone horribly wrong. Bad timing on top of it.
Either way.... good for Google! 'Bout time someone stood up to this administration's antics.
