Precis #2
Google Search Engine
Google is the Big Brother when it comes to search Engine. Almost everyone uses it. It’s the most popular Search Engine ever since early 2003, roughly five years ago. Before Google rises to the top, Yahoo was in the lead. Alltheweb, AltaVista and Inktomi were good too but people turn to Yahoo when they needed something. However, Google found its way to the top and managed to stay on top for quite awhile. What is their secret sauce? It’s a mystery just like a restaurant which has this special pasta sauce that attracts everyone in town. Google is that famous restaurant everyone goes to.
There are a lot of pressures that Google have to deal with when there are many competitors. Maintaining is one of the major issues. Early Google was an ads-free search engine which makes no profit. But at some point it has to find a way to make money and putting advertising gave them a huge profit. Users wouldn’t mind a tiny image floating along the right side of the screen. This doesn’t affect their clean interface. There’s nothing wrong with taking credit for what they’re good at.
Unlike Yahoo and Microsoft they’re targeting specific sites that generate income. Which mean most of the time when the users use their engine, the first thing that rank on the result list are online store, or business sites. Google expense their crawl to noncommercial sector such as public site like .org, edu or gov. This is probably why they’re success by broadening their search instead of targeting specific sites.
The major major problem with Google is privacy. Ever since 911 the federal government wanted to keep an eye on Google user’s database. Google doesn’t care about our privacy and they would careless of who’s looking at it. In fact, their toolbar is a spyware. They wanted to monitor their users and this is violating our privacy. They record everything they can. Why even bother? The thing that could drive user’s outrage is that Google customizing our result based on our IP number. This means that they’ve filtered our search or at least narrow it to some extend.
Another thing that would drive user’s nut is that Google can update their toolbar on our browser whenever they want without asking our permission. Good knows what extra spyware they’ll put in. Whoever has spyware remover try to scan and see. Likely people with Google toolbar will pops up a few spywares and it’s asking to remove it. And if we remove it our browser stop working properly the way it used to because something is missing now.
Google cache copy of our site even though things have been updated. Yet they’re showing it to the public. It’s something that the visitors don’t need to see. And frankly webmaster just wanted to show them the updated content not the old one. Google not only monitor what we are doing, they’re keeping a history of what we’re doing.
Violation privacy is a time bomb. They show no sign of loyalty or respect to their users. The data-mining in Washington can’t wait to get their hands on it. It seems as if Google is a watch dog for the government. Or maybe they’re together.
The internet is a free place because it doesn’t own by anyone. Not the government not the webmaster or developer, nor even the founder. It’s for everyone. No one has a right to monopolize it and shape it the way they wanted. Frankly Google is doing it and it’s a bad way to start a good relationship in a long run. I like Google. I used their search engine all the time, but I sure don’t want them to spy on me and monitor how many times I went to the bathroom everyday. It is a time bomb! Everyone is relying on it for resource and they should consider how important it is to handle their role. If they want the net to be a better, safer and fun place then I think they should stop undermining what they’re doing.
