Google Blocks Evil

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Google: Be a Little Evil

Google: Be a Little Evil 12/30/2004 09:08 AM
Technology Review Dec 30 2004 1:14PM GMT

Possible Google IPO - Is it Evil?

Possible Google IPO - Is it Evil? 04/24/2004 03:54 PM
Search Engine Journal Apr 24 2004 8:09PM GMT

Is Google News Evil?

Is Google News Evil? 02/25/2003 10:14 AM
Is Google News Evil? I hadn't realized how volatile Google News was until just this morning. I clicked onto it and opened an article in a new browser window. My normal excessively windowed reading habit, I'll admit. Then I happened to refresh the original Google News window and *Poof* after just a minute or two. Gone. Now don't get me wrong, I completely understand why it works like that but it did make me aware to the degree that Google News is starting to shape my thinking just by granting me access to a wider range of content than previously. Here's content that it just filtered out of my view in real time. Overall I do think Google News is good but this example really showed me how it could be applied in an evil fashion. How do we know that the presentation algorithms won't get perverted? Of course this is the question that has always existed with any type of news gathering organization -- they all bring bias to the table.

Proof that Google is evil

Proof that Google is evil 03/22/2005 03:37 PM
People have been saying that Google is evil for a long time, but now there's proof.

Google News is not Evil

Google News is not Evil 02/25/2003 10:38 PM
Scott asks if Google News is Evil. No, Scott it's not evil--it's real-time. It's no more evil than real-time stock quotes for investors. Yes, there's a certain edge introduced with access to an ever-changing view of the world. But the...

Evil: Google goes over to the dark side

Evil: Google goes over to the dark side 07/02/2004 07:57 PM
Google's new privacy policy has a loophole a good lawyer could manuver a battleship through: We do not rent or sell your personally identifying information to other companies or individuals, unless we have your consent. We may share such information in any of the following limited circumstances: ... * We have your consent. ... * We conclude that we are required by law or have a good faith belief that access, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of Google, its users or the public. What happened to "Do No Evil?" I sure hope that my GoogleAnon Bookmarklet is working....

Google decides Banner Ads, Skyscrapers
are not evil

Google decides Banner Ads, Skyscrapers
are not evil 05/14/2004 04:40 AM
As you were

Is Google turning evil? Next up: webmail
from Google, the non-portal portal
company

Is Google turning evil? Next up: webmail
from Google, the non-portal portal
company 01/17/2004 11:01 PM
Google is reportedly looking into a way to tie their AdWords advertising service into e-mail.

CyberJournalist.net: CMP blocks Google
News

CyberJournalist.net: CMP blocks Google
News 06/25/2004 05:29 AM
let's turn away all traffic from Google News .. CMP blocks Google News referers

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Google blocks Web worm Santy.A

Google blocks Web worm Santy.A 12/29/2004 08:44 PM
The Hindu Business Line Dec 30 2004 12:40AM GMT

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports |
Hear no evil, read no evil, speak drivel

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports |
Hear no evil, read no evil, speak drivel 04/16/2004 07:45 AM
Sidney Blumenthal: Bush's press conference shows just how ill-informed he is about Iraq 4/15 .. Hear no evil, read no evil, speak drivel .. piece

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Big Bug: Google Blocks All Results When
Blocking Spam

Big Bug: Google Blocks All Results When
Blocking Spam 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
Seth Finkelstein has made a startling discovery, backed with lots of evidence: when a spam result comes up in a search, Google not only blocks the spam, but every result after it. This means that for searches where spam results manage to rise to the top, very few -- sometimes zero -- results will be returned. Examples: motorcycle candle, keyboard bracelet. These are common words for which you'd expect to see results (in fact, the latter even says there are thousands of results) but the bug prevents them from being seen. Eliminating the spam pages (by blocking a word, antenna, that appears on them) allows full results to be displayed. It's pretty amazing that such a serious bug made it past Google's tests. It will be interesting to see how quickly it's fixed....

Google China news blocks confirmed

Google China news blocks confirmed 09/26/2004 03:14 PM
p2pnet.net Sep 26 2004 5:40PM GMT

Should Google blame Foot in Mouth
disease, or Evil Bankers?

Should Google blame Foot in Mouth
disease, or Evil Bankers? 08/19/2004 02:40 PM
Analysis Lost in Space

CMP Blocks Google News Because Their
Lawyers Want Fewer Visitors

CMP Blocks Google News Because Their
Lawyers Want Fewer Visitors 06/24/2004 06:03 PM
Sometimes it's worth repeating the mantra that lawyers understand the law, and not business. Just because a lawyer tells your business it can do something, it doesn't necessarily make sense to actually do it. It makes absolutely no sense, for instance, that CMP has apparently decided to ban all incoming links from Google News, just because they excerpt a couple sentences (and maybe an image). They are actively turning away traffic, and this is a business that is based on advertising. Perhaps this is just a mistake, but if it's not, it's a stupid policy that is going to cost CMP plenty of visitors (read: ad revenue) because some lawyers made a bad decision. Do they really think this will somehow bring them more visitors who will go to their front page instead? It won't. It will bring them many fewer visitors, because they've just cut off their most directed channel of traffic.

Google news service in China blocks
banned sites

Google news service in China blocks
banned sites 09/25/2004 05:22 PM
CTV.ca Sep 25 2004 8:11PM GMT

Harnessing Evil for the power of...
well, less evil

Harnessing Evil for the power of...
well, less evil 06/05/2005 11:55 PM
There are days I think the $WORK_PROJECT is an exercise in extended programming irony. The parrot code my compiler generates for $WORK_LANGUAGE makes heavy use of continuations. Really heavy use of continuations, to the point where reports are taking (and discarding) three continuations per record plus another two or three per page of the output. For a language which doesn't have functions, blocks, or lexical variables, and whose idea of sophisticated control flow is goto or gosub to bare labels. Go figure....

Chris Abraham: Evil Man in Black and His
Evil Black Suitcases Tackled by the Good
Guys

Chris Abraham: Evil Man in Black and His
Evil Black Suitcases Tackled by the Good
Guys 04/12/2005 05:55 AM
Evil Man in Black and His Evil Black Suitcases Tackled by the Good Guys .. Permalink

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To Evil!

To Evil! 09/17/2004 12:36 AM
Danny O'Brien: To Evil! "How do you work out who the movers and shakers are in the free software hacking world? I have decided to evaluate those involved in our so-called industry in terms of a battle between good and evil."

IRC is Evil

IRC is Evil 05/06/2004 12:00 AM
Anytime there is a relatively new mode of communication, its blamed for all things conceivable. A NY Times article takes aim at IRC as a breeding ground for file sharing, child porn and, god forbid, hackers. It specifically takes aim...

More about evil-or-not

More about evil-or-not 03/23/2005 08:15 AM

Yesterday, late in the afternoon, I wrote a bit about evil, and how unfortunate it is that this word has entered discourse in the blogosphere. I think we can trace it back to the Google goal of not being evil, an idea that's run its course, and should be stricken from their corporate philosophy. Google is no more or less evil than any other company, has no basis to claim a moral superiority, and should openly cancel it. And if they won't remove the hex, let me offer a new law of the Internet, a corollary to Godwin's Law. "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of it becoming about evil approaches one." And I'd add, that the length of time is shorter, but the effect on discourse is the same. It stops all rational discussion immediately.

Am I Evil?

Am I Evil? 06/25/2004 10:27 AM
Coincidence or contortion? Ivan Panin deciphered a numeric code in the Bible. Known as Gematria, the 'code' implies the Bible could not have been written without Holy assistance. Panin offered an open challenge for someone to create text using a similar pattern, yet no one was able to create one(nor tried).

However many people doubt the authenticity of the code though. The code is found in the same verses using different translations. It is also claimed that Panin manufactured his own translations to create this mathematical phenomenon.

Whether or not you believe, you can determine how good or evil any text or website is.

Do Be Evil

Do Be Evil 05/13/2004 02:15 AM
Google To Start Selling Banner Adverts From the that-didn't-take-too-long-department, Google's ad sales VP Tim Armstrong says Google will now start selling graphical banner adverts. One concession to their old mores is that, for now, the banner adverts will only appear on affiliated websites running their AdSense referral program (as does MeFi), and there is an opt-out. However... "We have no plans to show images on Google.com", said Mr. Armstrong "but we are not opposed to it".

Oh That Evil IRC

Oh That Evil IRC 05/06/2004 02:53 AM
Admittedly, I haven't used IRC in about a decade, but I'm still a bit surprised to see the NY Times write up a whole article describing just how evil IRC is. After reading the article, you can almost count down the days before some politicians talk about investigating this "IRC thing." Is it my imagination or is IRC just a technology that can be used for chatting? Most of the article talks about all the terrible stuff that is done on IRC in a way that does its best to blame the technology. They practically apologize for the few times they try to mention non-evil things that IRC is used for, as if they can't believe that anyone would dare defend such an evil monstrosity.

NYT says IRC is evil

NYT says IRC is evil 05/06/2004 04:36 AM

The New York Times has an article about how evil IRC is.

New York Times

Still, I.R.C. perhaps most closely resembles the cantina scene in "Star Wars'': a louche hangout of digital smugglers, pirates, curiosity seekers and the people who love them (or hunt them). There seem to be I.R.C. channels dedicated to every sexual fetish, and I.R.C. users speculate that terrorists also use the networks to communicate in relative obscurity.

Dvorak's ragging on chat and IM too.

Give me a break. Are people running out of new technologies to bash?

via Ross Mayfield

Evil or Not Too Evil?

Evil or Not Too Evil? 04/14/2004 01:15 PM
Our order processor, eSellerate (part of MindVision) decided to add a new "feature" to our store called the eSellerate Download...

Die You Evil Bug

Die You Evil Bug 06/09/2004 07:08 PM

Spam is EVIL!!!!!!

Spam is EVIL!!!!!! 02/10/2004 02:47 AM
Some interesting results from the Transatlantic Consumer Dialog's survey on spam. 21,000 people responded, from 36 countries.


Perhaps the scariest one is that 52% number. Spam is becoming a serious drag on the Internet economy. Not just the direct time and resources it sucks up, but its indirect effects in discouraging people from using email and the Web.

The New Mask Of Evil

The New Mask Of Evil 07/24/2004 02:21 PM
Rubies is showing off new mask of Darth Vader's helmet at Comic-Con. This should be out just in time for Halloween.

Sergey: Don't be evil.

Sergey: Don't be evil. 12/14/2002 08:15 PM
Wired: Google vs. Evil. Discusses Sergey Brin's role as the "moral compass" of Google, making sure they aren't evil....

Rise of Evil

Rise of Evil 06/25/2004 06:43 PM
Project is up and running!

"Mom, what are asses of evil?"

"Mom, what are asses of evil?" 09/02/2004 10:09 AM
Protesters have taken over my Manhattan neighborhood. But how do I explain their signs -- let alone the dismal state of the world -- to my 9-year-old son?

The Queen of All Evil

The Queen of All Evil 04/25/2004 08:52 PM
The Queen of All Evil .. new digs

qoae.net
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flash is evil?

flash is evil? 03/11/2003 02:00 PM
while doing some research on a topic i'll post after this one, i came across the "flash is evil" page....

Storms of Evil

Storms of Evil 04/13/2004 08:35 AM
Pulling Source, and GPL

Eudora 6.1 is evil

Eudora 6.1 is evil 04/19/2004 07:07 PM
Paul Szabo (Apr 19 2004)

The Evil Spider mEn!

The Evil Spider mEn! 06/30/2004 06:09 PM
Spiderman as a villian! Just to keep the trend for the day going.. (Via I-mockery by way of Fark)

SINA Evil?

SINA Evil? 07/28/2004 09:27 AM
Investing in China's risky, but if you hear no evil and speak no evil, maybe SINA can't be evil.

Return of the evil Net

Return of the evil Net 04/19/2004 01:38 PM
A News.com stor y today includes the quote from Rocky Anderson, Mayor of Salt Lake City, explaining his opposition to a municipal broadband network:

This reminds me of the media coverage of the Internet around 1995.  A good percentage of the stories were focused on the dangers of online porn, privacy violations, and other threats the Net posed to truth and decency.  Sure, many of those issues were and are real.  But the tenor of the coverage suggested that the Net was a cesspool of filth, with harms exceeding its benefits. 

I thought we were beyond that point.  But now we seem to be back to a similar discourse, with a twist.  The threat is that if you give people better connectivity, they'll use it to -- gasp -- share files!  This is another example of the criminalization of intellectual property law that I discussed two posts ago.  It's also the epitome of "throwing the baby out with the bathwater." 

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