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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/10/2014 11:50 PM, Guru गुरु
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<blockquote cite="mid:531E0254.7050100@ITforChange.net" type="cite">On
03/10/2014 09:19 PM, Adam Peake wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">On Mar 10, 2014, at 7:26 PM, Guru गुरु
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Would you agree that google's search algorithm being proprietary,
we have NO idea if google is using it to capture information every
time we invoke it, and using it for its commercial (legal as well
as illegal) purposes (and also for purposes beyond its immediate
commercial goals, such as the political goals of the US
Government, in whose jurisdiction, it falls, as Snowden revealed).
While this possibility of manipulation is true for any proprietary
software, the search algorithm is perhaps the
worlds-most_popular_on-line_proprietary_algorithm which makes the
danger of being manipulated for the political-economic gains of
certain entities far far higher... something that should scare
everyone else.
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the fear is not just a theoretical one..... <br>
see
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/19/google-pay-17-million-apple-tracking">http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/19/google-pay-17-million-apple-tracking</a>
where Google was found guilty of using its search for illegal
activities, <br>
The article says that the "huge fine of <span style="color:
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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height:
18.987144470214844px; orphans: auto; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;
float: none;">" would take Google slightly more than three hours
to generate in revenue on an average day.</span>.... (Lee, we are
very tough on Google aren't we <span class="moz-smiley-s1"><span>:-)
</span></span>)<br>
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Guru<br>
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