Google as Big Brother
Google, one of about 4 search engines that matter have the technology to show much more of the web on a regular basis. July 2003, Yahoo owned Overture, All the web, AltaVista; etc… and finally ended up dumping Google in February of 2004. Yahoo turned into a major search engine and was now able to complete their conquest to doing that.
After only 1 year, Yahoo showed their main index search engine similar with Google. It’s true; even though Yahoo has gone through “pay-per-click” links into the main index search engine. Yahoo’s success is of Google’s main index search engine. “There is only a 20 percent overlap between Yahoo’s 1st 100 results and Google’s 1st 100 results for the same search in their engine.” as the article said. The main difference is the depth of the show.
Microsoft developed their own engine because they found themselves in between the engines of Overture and Inktomi {both of which became Yahoo’s property}. 2003, Microsoft began experimenting with their own “search engine”. Their engine was put out in 2005. Thousands of engineers in thousands of companies know now how to design search engines.
We now have Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft, with the exception of looking out for “Ask Jeeves”. Their search engine is good, and they were serious about expanding a new movement, but Google took easily the number 1 spot of the search engines. They provide about 75 percent of the referrals for a lot of websites.
The privacy struggle included both the old issue of costumer protection and the new issue of the gov. surveillance, which means that Google treats the data they collects from users really well. Google is the main attraction to the web, that whatever it does towards privacy; it has massive affects for the rest of the web in general.
Google Quotes:
“What we believe is that Google, Inc. is at a fork in the road, and they have some big decisions to make. This Google Watch site is trying to articulate and publicize the situation at Google, and encourage more scrutiny of their operations. By doing this, we hope to play a small part in maintaining the web as an information tool that is more useful for the masses, than it is for the elites.” – Google Watch {Google}
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