{"id":35,"date":"2007-06-17T06:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-17T06:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/codeinmybug.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/17\/google-lost-me\/"},"modified":"2007-06-17T06:54:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-17T06:54:00","slug":"google-lost-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/archive\/google-lost-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Lost Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s strange writing something like this using a service that&#8217;s owned by Google. \ud83d\ude42<br \/>But it was long overdue.<\/p>\n<p>There was a time when I used address Google as &#8220;Google God&#8221; :).<br \/>Used to believe a lot that they religiously follow their &#8220;Do no Evil&#8221; motto. I forgot that as companies grow, there are bound to be employs who are evil by nature.<br \/>It reminds me of my Pre-Placement Training during college days when I was &#8220;tutored&#8221; that, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Honesty is not a strength. You are supposed to be honest<\/span>&#8221; This obviously isn&#8217;t true when people take the excuse of &#8220;everybody-is-doing-it-so-why-not-me&#8221;.<br \/>And lets face it.<br \/>Money matters!<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, coming back to the topic; I mentioned in one my previous blogs when my Google AdSense account was disabled because of my own mistakes. I took the responsibility and had no complaints. However, when my AdSense account was disabled for the second time, I made a thorough study of their privacy policies. That&#8217;s when I came to know about their two-faces.<br \/>They allow several sites to utilize their services even when they falter with the terms and conditions. One thing common among all these sites was, &#8220;they all are High Traffic sites&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned, a post on the topic was long overdue. I stopped myself with one or other reason. The latest development, however, made me talk about it.<br \/>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.privacyinternational.org\/article.shtml?cmd%5B347%5D=x-347-553961\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Privacy International&#8217;s<\/span> latest report<\/a> on Top 23 Internet Companies, Google held the last spot (even below M$). This topic, as Privacy International itself admits, is controversial. It&#8217;s report however, is substantially supported.<br \/>You might want to have a look at the post on the same topic <a href=\"http:\/\/ha.ckers.org\/blog\/20070612\/google-ranked-worst-in-privacy\/\">on RSnake&#8217;s blog<\/a>. Do not miss out on <a href=\"http:\/\/ha.ckers.org\/blog\/20070612\/google-ranked-worst-in-privacy\/#comment-39022\">the comments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Footnote:<\/span> This post is not an outlet to my anguish. I (mistakenly) had more faith in Google than most of you. Another post on <span style=\"font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;\">innovativeness<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\"> of Google technologies<\/span> is due.<br \/>And BTW, I do not mean to say that Google has turned evil. I believe as the company has grown, the motto has changed to &#8220;<span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Do no Evil. If there is any, close your eyes<\/span>&#8220;.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s strange writing something like this using a service that&#8217;s owned by Google. \ud83d\ude42But it was long overdue. There was a time when I used address Google as &#8220;Google God&#8221; :).Used to believe a lot that they religiously follow their &#8220;Do no Evil&#8221; motto. I forgot that as companies grow, there are bound to be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/archive\/google-lost-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Lost Me!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,29,34,46],"tags":[44,45],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-irony","category-microsoft","category-review","tag-rating","tag-reality"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf2XR-z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectbee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}