
She's nicked Chiffon's Miss January pose!
This is in Google’s recent message concerning changes to their privacy policy:
“…our desire to create one beautifully simple and intuitive experience across Google.”
If you substitute “intrusive” for “intuitive” you’ll be closer to the truth. Google have gotten out of control and need to be cut down to size. I for one am actively reducing my use of Google products.
When Google first burst on the scene it was a great search engine based on a simple but effective principle. That was to push websites with the highest hits to the top, i.e. make the assumption that the most popular sites would be the ones most likely to meet the criteria of the person entering search terms. It’s surprising that no-one (Lycos, Yahoo etc) thought of it before.
But, Google got big and powerful and started making huge profits from advertising. This tipped them into the domain of “pushed” advertising rather than the passive variety that the web was used to. They also started taking over other websites such as YouTube.
The original search engine principle has now been superceded by greed. Businesses and individuals can now get themselves to the top of the pile by paying for the pleasure. So the original idea is now obsolete.
But, Google got big (I am deliberately repeating this!) Their latest plan is to monitor your every move on the internet and push stuff at you across various websites that they control. I for one hate the idea of this and will do my best to avoid anything Google related. If you agree then please do the same.
Microsoft seem (at the moment) to be avoiding going down a similar road so I’ve started using Bing for searches, and Bing Maps is OK. They took over Multimap which was one of the fore-runners of online mapping. It’s just YouTube that’s the problem…
Chiffon!