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On 01/06/2013 10:22 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:<br>
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<div>So do you get all your news from just <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://news.google.com">news.google.com</a>
and other google search results, instead of Facebook shares,
Riaz gleefully posting every article he sees about google being
investigated for, say, giggling in church?</div>
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<div>And did Riaz find this news item anywhere other than google
search?</div>
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<div>And does this reality distortion field google is supposed to
have actually hide any search results from you that are negative
to it? Like search for "google FTC" and you get the EU action,
statements from Microsoft slamming the decision etc.</div>
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Does 'personalised search' (without your having asked for, it or
having any role in such pesonalisation) not in a sense 'reality
distortion' ....by offering different people different views on the
same keyword search.<br>
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See <font size="2">attached aticle (<font size="2">the web link is
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<font size="2">Guru</font> </font></font></font>
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<div>And the last link on page 1 of the search results showing
just where google got spanked by the FTC. <a
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href="http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/111650/why-does-everyone-think-google-beat-the-ftc#">http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/111650/why-does-everyone-think-google-beat-the-ftc#</a> is
worth a read as a kind f counterpoint to all the commentary
about how google got a get out of jail card because of intensive
lobbying.<br>
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Can we please</div>
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<div>1. Have a reality check here</div>
<div>2. Go back to discussing Internet governance </div>
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On 06-Jan-2013, at 22:00, "michael gurstein" <<a
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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Riaz (and sorry for the really awkward phrasing… <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I'm
wondering whether it wouldn't be better to
"investigate" Google for possible "freedom of thought"
violations rather than issues concerning "freedom of
speech"… Google has the potential for much more
serious impacts on our capacity to know (or not know)
certain things, than on what we can say or not say…<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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