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One newly minted Google millionaire was touring a mansion for sale in Los Gatos. After climbing a hill in the yard and enjoying the view, he asked the real estate agent an unusual question: Could he build a Ferris wheel on the property? At one point, he declared that he wanted more land. When told that would mean living near Half Moon Bay, he said he could always commute to work in a helicopter. A few minutes later, the client turned his interest to Treasure Island, declaring that he might be able to buy some land there. "It would be cool," Marcus recalled him saying, "to take a speed boat to work every day." — San Francisco Chronicle, August 14, 2005, p.B-1 |
Keyhole, the satellite imaging company that Google acquired in October 2004, was funded by the CIA. "We are moving to a Google that knows more about you." — Google CEO Eric Schmidt, February 9, 2005 
Since 2000, Google has recorded your search terms,
the date-time of each search, the globally-unique ID in your cookie (it expires in 2038),
and your IP address. This information is available to governments on request.
If your favorite site features a Google search box, ask them to install their
own local site search. They could also use our
site search for webmasters,
which shows the same results without the tracking. |
1. bogus
bio posted at Wikipedia 2. libelous post is scraped
3. mirror site and Google continue to make
mo
ney!
( Welcome to Web 2.0 )
"Matt, you have to do something about
all that spam showing up on page one.
I can't find anything in Google anymore."
"But Mr. Schmidt, I already fixed that!
I spread a thick layer of Wikipedia over
the spam,
pushing it down to page two!"
"I'm talking about Wikipedia, Matt."
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"I'd be happy to have, in theory, a good, neutral biography on every single person on the planet," he says. "I mean, why not, right?" — Jimmy Wales in The Wall Street Journal, August 8, 2008 |
