Off Topic Google's motto: "Don't be evil" - Hogwash

Tony Toews [MVP]

I'm very upset with Google's policy of indexing and allowing Google
advertising on forum web sites which are "slurping" content from
Usenet and Microsoft newsgroup servers.

http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/archi...t-hogwash.aspx

Tony
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Nov 12 '07 #1

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lyle

On Nov 12, 4:50 pm, "Tony Toews [MVP]" <tto...@teluspl anet.netwrote:

I'm very upset with Google's policy of indexing and allowing Google
advertising on forum web sites which are "slurping" content from
Usenet and Microsoft newsgroup servers.

http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/archi...e-s-motto-quot...

Tony
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Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP
Please respond only in the newsgroups so that others can
read the entire thread of messages.
Microsoft Access Links, Hints, Tips & Accounting Systems athttp://www.granite.ab. ca/accsmstr.htm
Tony's Microsoft Access Blog -http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/

I share your disappointment, Tony, but long ago I accepted the reality
that when I post, my ideas, thoughts, wisdom, ignorance and errors,
all together are exposed to misinterpretati on, plagiarism and
commercial exploitation.

You express, justifiably, disillusionment with Google's inclusion in
its search results of secondary sites that mirror newsgroup content,
while holding that, "You can make money without doing evil". I can say
only that Google is a commercial enterprise and that a commercial
enterprise's evil classification scheme might not match ours. Some day
Google may qualify those results with a designation, such as "primary"
or "secondary" . I suppose that it will do so when it can make more
money by doing less evil. In the meantime, challenges to Google seem
to spring up every day. We could hope that the creators of the next
killer search engine will read your blog, and meet your standards.

For years I have muttered about the sites that make money through
reposting our freely given answers but I prefer to be the slurped,
rather than the one who slurps. From my own personal experience I have
concluded that God rewards the slurped more, even when the slurped is
an atheist.

Nov 13 '07 #2

Arno R

"lyle" <ly************ @gmail.comschre ef in bericht news:11******** **************@ 57g2000hsv.goog legroups.com...

On Nov 12, 4:50 pm, "Tony Toews [MVP]" <tto...@teluspl anet.netwrote:
>I'm very upset with Google's policy of indexing and allowing Google
advertising on forum web sites which are "slurping" content from
Usenet and Microsoft newsgroup servers.

http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/archi...e-s-motto-quot...

Tony
--
Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP
Please respond only in the newsgroups so that others can
read the entire thread of messages.
Microsoft Access Links, Hints, Tips & Accounting Systems athttp://www.granite.ab. ca/accsmstr.htm
Tony's Microsoft Access Blog -http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/
I share your disappointment, Tony, but long ago I accepted the reality
that when I post, my ideas, thoughts, wisdom, ignorance and errors,
all together are exposed to misinterpretati on, plagiarism and
commercial exploitation.

You express, justifiably, disillusionment with Google's inclusion in
its search results of secondary sites that mirror newsgroup content,
while holding that, "You can make money without doing evil". I can say
only that Google is a commercial enterprise and that a commercial
enterprise's evil classification scheme might not match ours. Some day
Google may qualify those results with a designation, such as "primary"
or "secondary" . I suppose that it will do so when it can make more
money by doing less evil. In the meantime, challenges to Google seem
to spring up every day. We could hope that the creators of the next
killer search engine will read your blog, and meet your standards.

For years I have muttered about the sites that make money through
reposting our freely given answers but I prefer to be the slurped,
rather than the one who slurps. From my own personal experience I have
concluded that God rewards the slurped more, even when the slurped is
an atheist.

Hmmm... Very eloquently put Lyle !! (for an atheist that is) ;-)

Arno R

Nov 13 '07 #3

signfrom

From my own personal experience I have

concluded that God rewards the slurped more, even when the slurped is
an atheist.

God doesn't look back Lyle, let alone reward anyone.

Nov 13 '07 #4

David W. Fenton

si******@gmail. com wrote in
news:11******** *************@v 2g2000hsf.googl egroups.com:

God doesn't look back Lyle, let alone reward anyone.

I read this as "God doesn't look like Lyle" and was thinking "thank
$deity for that!"

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David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/
usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/

Nov 13 '07 #5

CDMAPoster

On Nov 13, 6:56 am, lyle <lyle.fairfi... @gmail.comwrote :

For years I have muttered about the sites that make money through
reposting our freely given answers but I prefer to be the slurped,
rather than the one who slurps. From my own personal experience I have
concluded that God rewards the slurped more, even when the slurped is
an atheist.

I agree. It is more blessed to be slurped than to slurp.

James A. Fortune
CD********@Fort uneJames.com

Nov 13 '07 #6

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