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On 2006-06-07, Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
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>>> By the way, Linux (OSDL) could probably have Google sued for this:
>>>
>>> http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2006/02/10/google-sponsored-links/
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> Roy
>>
>> I went to a convention last year in Burbank Ca. It was about 3 miles from
>> a skyscraper with dish-i abounding on the roof. It was the Disney channel
>> headquarters. I passed that and about a mile later I came upon an enourmous
>> (as in wide) complex that had the Google logo in two-story tall living
>> color. When I say this complex was enourmous, I mean NBC studios enourmous.
>> Rockafellor center enourmous. Bill Gates ego enourmous.
>>
>> Just down the street from Burbank int. airport.
>>
>> Even though it started that way, it's not a mom and pop bell-on-the-door
>> anymore.
>
> It definitely is *NOT*.
>
> http://news.com.com/2061-10812_3-6080738.html
>
> Google will stay course on Chinese search--for now
> June 6, 2006 5:09 PM PDT
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Google co-founder Sergey Brin says the company has compromised its
>| principles by accommodating Chinese censorship demands, but is trying to
>| make its censored Chinese search engine work before deciding whether to
>| reverse direction, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday.
> `----
>
> With Schmidt, I can see this... given where he comes from, as well as his big
> ego. But young sergey? The founder and the man behind the "Do Not be Evil"
> mantra? The man of Python and Free Open Source? I feel beyrayed and
> appalled.
>
> By the way, Google's search engine has been broken since March. The bad
> consequences peaked in May (still an ongoing problems). They won't tell this
> to people... they stick to secrecy.
I had temporarily forgotten that Google was founded on a Python engine
running on Linux. If I had to guess, i'd say they replaced that horse
with a turkey.
The funny thing is, I hadn't noticed any difference. Of course, it's hard
to tell when you don't know what info *should* be there and *isn't* .
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Roy
>
> - --
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> http://iuron.com - semantic engine to gather information
By the way, my SLRN GPG script refuses to automatically put my
key in the message. Oh well, I guess I'll have to do an X header.
bummer.
Regards,
Mathew
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