Comments on: Google: Behind the Screen

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 07:51:00 +0000

google censored ED from its search results for a time in australia at the request of the government because of an article about aboriginials made as a joke that the government took too seriously.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 22:03:00 +0000

Nice comment, I agree wholeheartedly.

By: Tyler Hayes

Tyler Hayes — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:13:00 +0000

Queued up for later.

By: El Mastapha

El Mastapha — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 05:42:00 +0000

i love using Google for everything thank you Google

By: Daryl Walters

Daryl Walters — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:50:00 +0000

Boring

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 22:43:00 +0000

WOW! I sure learned a lot from this documentary. Free access to information is, I think, the basis of a free society. We are free to learn that we deserve to be free. We must protect this right. sybilnewmexico@yahoo.com

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 14:30:00 +0000

@Dave
“Can you ever really trust a profit oriented company?”

After watching some of Adam Curtis’ docs (on this spectacular site – TDF), specifically ‘ The Trap’, I don’t think any companies truly care if you do. The economy was developed on the idea that we are selfish, constantly calculate and scheme against one another, and so we participate in the economy with these motivations.

This is a narrow minded view of the human being, no one is any one thing. The want to do good and to do well can coexist. It seems like the economy is slowly starting to accept this, and Google is a good example of it. I want to trust, so cautiously I do trust that they are legitimately trying to do no evil.

Bungie (the developers of Halo) is the only other company I have a similar feeling toward. Any one who knows of them probably knows what I mean.

I am a life like distruster of capitalism, but I am finding myself slowly changing my tune. I hope this is not too naive.

By: Winston Smith

Winston Smith — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:30:00 +0000

“However, if I were to perceive that Google was trying to manipulate the information I receive, I would quickly seek alternatives, as I am sure would many others”

manipulate? you mean like catalog and analyze so they can sell a your time online to the right advertising demographic? Then you wont find a search engine bc that’s exactly what they all do. Remember, on the internet YOU are the product that is being used and sold. You use yahoo mail or gmail or hotmail? well all of your emails are scanned for keywords (the subject line gets read) and they all tell them a little more about who you are and what your plans are.

By: Winston Smith

Winston Smith — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:22:00 +0000

..lol! Amazing that you would mention cutting edge technology and bronze age mythology like one has anything to do with the other; it doesnt. And no, nothing that’s the result of a lot of hard work producing revolutionary products and business models is ‘inevitable’

By: anmol shrivastava

anmol shrivastava — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:33:00 +0000

a must watch documentry

By: Achems_Razor

Achems_Razor — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:11:00 +0000

So now you have put your gods, religion even in google? why not? there is hardly one doc on TDF where religions are not superimposed. Maybe google does figure they are akin to gods, so may not be that far from the truth. (LOL)

By: kisubika priscilla

kisubika priscilla — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:08:00 +0000

what Google is doing is inevitable.If Google doesn’t do it some other company will.Because the good old book(Bible) says in Daniel 12:4 “..and knowledge shall be increased ” in the end times.Right now Google is still dealing with ‘information’ but we are transiting from an ‘Information Age’ to a ‘Knowledge Age’. In which everyone will know the Truth.

By: Hugs

Hugs — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:02:27 +0000

A very interesting documentary. Like many people, I first tried Google when I heard that it was a good search engine. Before that I had been using Lycos, Altavista, Expedia, etc. Since I perceived it as being clearly superior, I switched to it almost exclusively. I still try others like Bing, for example, on occasion.
However, if I were to perceive that Google was trying to manipulate the information I receive, I would quickly seek alternatives, as I am sure would many others. Sadly this is not true generally as is made clear by the fact that of the earliest Internet adopters, namely the US, only 42% use Google. People as a whole don’t like change, which explains many things from stereotyping to why people stick with the first thing they get; IE for example.
I can only applaud Google for their many innovations beyond that of being a mere search engine while at the same time abhorring any government that would pry into their database. Ultimately we all deserve what we get, because we vote for it as individuals on at a time.

By: curious

curious — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 05:36:30 +0000

critical thought is vital – today, more than ever … the last interview was wise: all information contains a level of bias, including the statement itself … what this video revealed, however, is that google is less like the serpent and more like eve in the information paradise … our own ignorance is still the greatest threat to freedom, not google, and that’s the thesis in this doc

By: Dodgy

Dodgy — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 09:27:55 +0000

I think of them like I think of walmart or microsoft. If you get too big for your britches and make too many demands on us, we will just stop using you. The same way that IE got shoved off the map and FF jumped in. I don’t even feel bad when I make a site that IE doesn’t like, it’s a turd and it’s their fault that they won’t follow the standards.

Google is a monopoly whether they admit it or not, I have never been asked as a web dev to increase anyone’s search results anywhere but on Google. That’s who clients see as where they need to be. I won’t say it won’t be challenging to leave their search engine if they act up but that’s what would be done, somehow I survived on the net before them.

What I foresee is that they will eventually spread themselves too far and lose that initial focus. The originators are all wealthy enough to walk away and wipe their hands of it. You can’t really name anything on the net Google doesn’t have it’s fingers in and that’s beginning to sicken me as much as I like other things about them. They keep pumping out free apps and nic nacs but isn’t that what the pusher does… give you some hits for free to start? I try not to rely on all their gimicks as I invested in one (03d) just to have them pull the plug on it. My time is valuable to me, be straight with me about your intentions. They kept saying they would support it, I put time into helping them grow it, answering questions, making documents then poof – project is turning into an add-on to another product just like we said it wouldn’t. Antics like that don’t garner them trust.

Remember when adsense was pushed heavier than adwords? Now adsense is almost an instant inclusion on sites that have no business supporting them and someone pays for that. Namely my companies asking to be #1 on Google all the time. I know several small companies paying more in adwords than their payroll would be for another employee – is that right? I don’t know how long Google can keep them convinced that it’s paying off.