Off Topic Google's motto: "Don't be evil" - Hogwash

[Tony Toews [MVP]]

I'm very upset with Google's policy of indexing and allowing Google
advertising on forum web sites which are "slurping" content from
Usenet and Microsoft newsgroup servers.

http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/arch...-s-motto-quot-don-t-be-evil-quot-hogwash.aspx

Tony
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[lyle]

I'm very upset with Google's policy of indexing and allowing Google
advertising on forum web sites which are "slurping" content from
Usenet and Microsoft newsgroup servers.

http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/archive/2007/11/12/google-s-motto-quot...

Tony
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read the entire thread of messages.
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I share your disappointment, Tony, but long ago I accepted the reality
that when I post, my ideas, thoughts, wisdom, ignorance and errors,
all together are exposed to misinterpretation, plagiarism and
commercial exploitation.

You express, justifiably, disillusionment with Google's inclusion in
its search results of secondary sites that mirror newsgroup content,
while holding that, "You can make money without doing evil". I can say
only that Google is a commercial enterprise and that a commercial
enterprise's evil classification scheme might not match ours. Some day
Google may qualify those results with a designation, such as "primary"
or "secondary". I suppose that it will do so when it can make more
money by doing less evil. In the meantime, challenges to Google seem
to spring up every day. We could hope that the creators of the next
killer search engine will read your blog, and meet your standards.

For years I have muttered about the sites that make money through
reposting our freely given answers but I prefer to be the slurped,
rather than the one who slurps. From my own personal experience I have
concluded that God rewards the slurped more, even when the slurped is
an atheist.

 

[Arno R]

I share your disappointment, Tony, but long ago I accepted the reality
that when I post, my ideas, thoughts, wisdom, ignorance and errors,
all together are exposed to misinterpretation, plagiarism and
commercial exploitation.

You express, justifiably, disillusionment with Google's inclusion in
its search results of secondary sites that mirror newsgroup content,
while holding that, "You can make money without doing evil". I can say
only that Google is a commercial enterprise and that a commercial
enterprise's evil classification scheme might not match ours. Some day
Google may qualify those results with a designation, such as "primary"
or "secondary". I suppose that it will do so when it can make more
money by doing less evil. In the meantime, challenges to Google seem
to spring up every day. We could hope that the creators of the next
killer search engine will read your blog, and meet your standards.

For years I have muttered about the sites that make money through
reposting our freely given answers but I prefer to be the slurped,
rather than the one who slurps. From my own personal experience I have
concluded that God rewards the slurped more, even when the slurped is
an atheist.

Hmmm... Very eloquently put Lyle !! (for an atheist that is) ;-)

Arno R

 

[signfrom]

From my own personal experience I have

concluded that God rewards the slurped more, even when the slurped is
an atheist.

God doesn't look back Lyle, let alone reward anyone.

 

[David W. Fenton]

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God doesn't look back Lyle, let alone reward anyone.

I read this as "God doesn't look like Lyle" and was thinking "thank
$deity for that!"

 

[CDMAPoster]

For years I have muttered about the sites that make money through
reposting our freely given answers but I prefer to be the slurped,
rather than the one who slurps. From my own personal experience I have
concluded that God rewards the slurped more, even when the slurped is
an atheist.

I agree. It is more blessed to be slurped than to slurp.

James A. Fortune
(e-mail address removed)