Google: Feeding The Beast
Searching for images on Google, this page came up:
We do not allow clicks coming from Google. Our site has been removed from Google Search Index as Google has gotten greedy over MAKING MONEY OFF OF YOUR CLICKS, However Google's DIRTY BUSINESS TACTICS enable you to find this site thorugh an IMAGE Search, which means you are looking to STEAL an image of something that may be copyrighted and ALL of the images on this site are copyrigted, or you are looking to find images of products to look at the image, which makes us loose money by having you visit our site. We only make money when people come around our site for Shopping. Google deletes sites from its index because Google WANTS TO MAKE ALL THE MONEY and wants everybody else TO LOOSE MONEY. FUCK GOOGLE. Stop USING GOOGLE NOW. Stop Feeding the Beast. Google is an ignorant mother fucking son of a bitch. If you have invested in GOOG stocks, we invite you to help your future and get rid of them AS SOON AS YOU CAN.
Google's Business Model IS A SCAM. Yes you heard it right, this company is SCAMMING US ALL. Ever wondered WHY you see Amazon.com on Google Search results for just about ANYTHING you search for? Will tell you, the answer is a
MAN Called "John Doerr". Google ONLY lets you find What Google Wants to let you find. When you search the web with Google, Know that You are NOT searching to find information available on the web, YOU ARE SEARCHING TO FIND Information that Google deems a potential/real revenue source for Google. STOP using Google Services NOW and seek for the TRUTH.
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Funny - I wasn't looking for an image TO STEAL - but I often do use Google image search for one reason or another, and I do pilfer freely, because such is the internet that we can. For the purposes of this blog, I often link to people if I use an image (see previous post). Once or twice, I have even asked and been given permission to use excerpts or elements from other sites. Generally though, I steal like a naughty internet magpie. I think I would have to revise my methodology if I made money from this blog - it wouldn't seem right to profit from other people's stuff without cutting them in on it. Maybe that attitude makes me stupidly sentimental. But I cannot see the point in pretending this isn't all an enormous evolving multi-national cultural collage which we are all constructing and deconstructing. That wouldn't make any sense.I know that my own files are also linked to and downloaded via sites beyond my control - one of my song files has been downloaded and presumably heard over 4000 times in the last three months because someone with a MySpace account is linking to it. Actually I am really pleased that all these people are digging my song, though I do kind of wish I was charging a quid per hit. Am I accusing them of stealing it, or "stealing my bandwidth" as one righteous blogger once rantingly put it, or blaming Microsoft? No, because such is the nature of this public space we call internet, and if you are in it, you must accept that anything you do is up for grabs and might be used without your approval. Only the most blatant defamation of individuals with immense wealth, or the very biggest commercial infringements of the most powerful corporations, will ever be punished, and everyone knows this.Interesting, the march of Google, and amazing that more people don't see the incredible power they are accumulating, which will soon dwarf Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple. My personal take is that Google is duplicitous, holding out against the mighty US Government on the one hand, capitulating to China on the other. I wouldn't trust them further than I could spit a cockabindi claw, even though I regularly use their services, and use Blogger to publish this blog.google scam blogging enormous evolving multi-national cultural collage
© This post copyrigted 2006
posted by Deek Deekster @ 10:26 PM
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8 Comments:
That sums it up nicely, but I'm a bit disturbed by this.
I do not believe corporations like Google can have it both ways. If they are going to knuckle-under to Chinese Dictators in order to access their marketplace, they should immediately revise their corporate slogan, "DO NO EVIL" to "DO NO EVIL unless business interests preclude it."
This smacks of self-serving moral relevency.
Smacks it do, and wafts through all quarters its ill wind.
I, possibly ignorantly, tend to believe these things work themselves out. I use Google constantly and, as long as it doesn't give me genital warts or raid my bank account, I'm fine with it.
Regarding China, shouldn't a business respect the culture of the people it's trying to do business with?
Somewhere between the person who's having a stroke over Google and idiots like me, there is the truth. I'll let someone else figure it out. You'll let me know won't you, Deek?
Cancers seldom work themselves out... but, occassionally, they do.
Apathy has allowed the subtle drift of a wide number of official ills take root recently. Nipping these things in the bud is hardly the sort of alarmist position it is often made out to be, and it takes far less of a toll than coping with a fully formed menace.
We are in the midst of sweeping change. We will pay dearly for a lack of vigilance.
Less than 10% of the information on the Internet has been indexed by any of the search engines, and don't forget that Yahoo and MSN are also huge search engines, Google is not the only player.
To index all of the data currently on the Internet would take a couple of hundred years. That's before you started on all of the new data added during that period of time.
So, saying that Google, and all of the other search engines, 'only let you find what they want you to find', or what they deem to be "important" is merely a statement of the obvious.
It's unlikely that anything more than a very small percentage of the data on the Internet will ever be indexed (but, never say never, I suppose), and that's not the fault of any of the search engines, it's just the impossible enormity of the task.
Today, <10%. Tomorrow, who knows?
simply resolution to the google problem. dont post on the internet what you dont want stolen. if its images you are worried about there are ways to prevent people from taking them, such as watermarks, disable right clicking, splicing etc. if you do have a copyrighted image then all you have to do is find the person who is using it illegally and force them to stop.
also, use the no follow tag to prevent your site from being crawled by search engines.
there are ways to prevent indexing of your site and images.
further more, calm down. its not the end of the world.
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