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Infoworld: "Too big to trust? Google's growing credibility gap"
By Galen Gruman
Created 2014-04-15 03:00AM
Remember when we all loved Google? Its search engine was both simple to use and an unbiased portal to anything you wanted to know. It was founded by two college students at a time when Silicon Valley was a shining beacon of what was right in the world, during sunny economic and political times.
We don't love Google so much any more, mainly because we trust it less and less. More and more people have realized that the Google search engine is hugely biased in favor of advertisers, and the results are increasingly manipulated by Google for inscrutable purposes. Google seems to track anything and everything we do -- it peruses our emails, our files stored on its servers, our locations, and our chats. Americans are getting nervous...
When Google bought smart thermostat maker Nest [4] earlier this year, the public recoiled.
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Pretty much captures my own view of the company. I liked it. Once.
http://www.infoworld.com/print/239815
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