Weirdness

Monday, September 27, 2010

Google's "Blacklist"

http://www.2600.com/googleblacklist/

Interesting, although I don't share the writer's view that this is somehow a matter of information being "filtered or suppressed".  The fact tha you have to actually hit the Enter Key to get this deeply guarded information is no more than a sign of how lazy computer geeks have gotten, (and Google Instant isn't even that old!).  Poor baby!  It's also interesting that after accusing Google of this, the writer then says that it's a good thing they're not "evil"!
The solution, of course, is that on anything that interests you, it is important to spend some time and study it from a variety of sources and points of view.  Google is not the only search engine, and (gasp!) the Internet is not the only source of information.  Fast, ultra-convenient, but not alone.  It's not a matter of the owner's of Google being bad or not.  They undoubtedly have a point of view, (like everyone else), and it's just lazy to enslave yourself to it, (and then piss and moan about how limited your world view has suddenly gotten). 


(Thanks for the link, Elina!)

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