i came across this, while ironically searcing in google

1. Google's immortal cookie:
Google was the first search engine to use a cookie that expires in 2038. This was at a time when federal websites were prohibited from using persistent cookies altogether. Now it's years later, and immortal cookies are commonplace among search engines; Google set the standard because no one bothered to challenge them. This cookie places a unique ID number on your hard disk. Anytime you land on a Google page, you get a Google cookie if you don't already have one. If you have one, they read and record your unique ID number.

2. Google records everything they can:
For all searches they record the cookie ID, your Internet IP address, the time and date, your search terms, and your browser configuration. Increasingly, Google is customizing results based on your IP number. This is referred to in the industry as "IP delivery based on geolocation."

3. Google retains all data indefinitely:
Google has no data retention policies. There is evidence that they are able to easily access all the user information they collect and save.

4. Google won't say why they need this data:
Inquiries to Google about their privacy policies are ignored. When the New York Times (2002-11-28) asked Sergey Brin about whether Google ever gets subpoenaed for this information, he had no comment.

5. Google hires spooks:
Matt Cutts, a key Google engineer, used to work for the National Security Agency. Google wants to hire more people with security clearances, so that they can peddle their corporate assets to the spooks in Washington.

6. Google's toolbar is spyware:
With the advanced features enabled, Google's free toolbar for Explorer phones home with every page you surf, and yes, it reads your cookie too. Their privacy policy confesses this, but that's only because Alexa lost a class-action lawsuit when their toolbar did the same thing, and their privacy policy failed to explain this. Worse yet, Google's toolbar updates to new versions quietly, and without asking. This means that if you have the toolbar installed, Google essentially has complete access to your hard disk every time you connect to Google (which is many times a day). Most software vendors, and even Microsoft, ask if you'd like an updated version. But not Google. Any software that updates automatically presents a massive security risk.

7. Google's cache copy is illegal:
Judging from Ninth Circuit precedent on the application of U.S. copyright laws to the Internet, Google's cache copy appears to be illegal. The only way a webmaster can avoid having his site cached on Google is to put a "noarchive" meta in the header of every page on his site. Surfers like the cache, but webmasters don't. Many webmasters have deleted questionable material from their sites, only to discover later that the problem pages live merrily on in Google's cache. The cache copy should be "opt-in" for webmasters, not "opt-out."

8. Google is not your friend:
By now Google enjoys a 75 percent monopoly for all external referrals to most websites. Webmasters cannot avoid seeking Google's approval these days, assuming they want to increase traffic to their site. If they try to take advantage of some of the known weaknesses in Google's semi-secret algorithms, they may find themselves penalized by Google, and their traffic disappears. There are no detailed, published standards issued by Google, and there is no appeal process for penalized sites. Google is completely unaccountable. Most of the time Google doesn't even answer email from webmasters.

9. Google is a privacy time bomb:
With 200 million searches per day, most from outside the U.S., Google amounts to a privacy disaster waiting to happen. Those newly-commissioned data-mining bureaucrats in Washington can only dream about the sort of slick efficiency that Google has already achieved.

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Wow, google are watching our every move! Bastards!

so, the guys at google know i use mozilla fire fox, i like the show real world, and im gonna buy a custom guitar soon....oh no!

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Shut up you fucking Hippie.

Go eat some lettuce.

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what the hell?

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well i thought it was funny in a dale-gribble paranoia way.. i'm still using google

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Hah! I only til resently I found out how to sleep with my eyes open... man I'm tired.

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Bah, that is no worse than some of the shit Microsoft does.

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Well, I know they've used different net records to catch criminals. I got disgusted the few times I used Google years ago. And though I have Mozilla and the google thing comes up on it, I'm very fond of askjeeves. I hardly ever use google.

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goddamnit i hate ask jeeves! its a regular search engine that just filters out "how do i" and "where can i get"


its like google only crappy! GAH!

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Too funny, the real ask Jeeves

Way too funny, I was laughing my ass off for hours.

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On a whim...I typed my new zip code in the google search bar..... got a page with a satellite photo of the town and a complete break down of stats of race/age/gender...income and other aspects of the area.

google kicks ass, it makes warfare so much easier for everyone, and its just 4 letters and 6 punches on the keyboard away.

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If you have the internet, you're being watched.

if you are that paranoid to give a shit, get rid of the internet. Microsoft can see whatever they like, not to mention god-knows how many other sites you visit place spyware on your pc.




So unplug the net/phone, wrap yourself in aluminium-foil, black out all your windows and you will be fine.

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I googled the word GOOGLE


Got back 250 million hits.

Isnt that a quarter billion?

The REAL Jeeves was a character in a book series and he was a butler. I knew about that years ago from browsing in the library.

But anyways I went to that site up there and it's hilarious.

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very good

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"get the fuck off my web page"






but what your trying to say is in the year 2099 all computers and robots are going to start having minds of their own and try to terminate the entire world NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


honestly who cares

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Sarah Connor?

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*ZING*

meh... the thought of even trying to relate this to the terminator seemed unredeemably gay but...fu' you know what fuck this

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Dont call Johnmansley gay... Or ill......go terminator style on your gibroni ass.

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