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2010: The year of the Google backlash

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Google used to be the ubercool company everyone loved, wanted to work for and admired.
But those days are long gone.
I’ve seen so much animosity from internet users, web professionals and public officials towards the Big G in the last couple of months that I think 2010 will be the [...]

Google suggests you disable Google Buzz !

Google Buzz Privacy Flaw

Say you’re a journalist, and anonymous sourcing is your whole career. Google Buzz auto-populates follower lists for you, and automatically shares them with the whole wide world. That means you’re fucked if you’re a journalist, a political dissident, a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage with a violent, abusive, criminal husband, a doctor who performs abortions in [...]

The Google Bay

10 results for “House SE06E10“on Google = 10 links to illegal torrents sites

In the meantime, Eircom is still blocking The Pirate Bay for doing the same thing.

Google Doodles in 2010

Google regularly modifies its logo to celebrate special events like national holidays, birthdays of famous artists and scientists or pop culture references. These special logos are called doodles and I have a few suggestions to the folks at Google for 2010. I didn’t include any annual events like St-Patrick’s Day, Chinese New Year, Thanksgiving etc.

Winter [...]