Google Launches Google+ Social Networking Initiative
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 28th Jun 2011 19:48 UTC
Google Well, here we have another attempt. After the failure of the overly complicated Google Wave (remember that? It was supposed to change the world and all that), Google is undertaking another attempt at social networking. It's called Google+. Update: Forget the crap I wrote here, this article is seven pages on insider information on Google+. Surprised by the beautiful interface? It's been designed by Andy Hertzfeld. The Andy Hertzfeld.
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smitty
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2005-10-13

Haha. You didn't read my other comments then. I can't stand Facebook either. I have never had, and never will have a Facebook account. My privacy concerns with Facebook are just as bad as they are with Google.

Exactly what a paid Facebook shill would say, isn't it? That's the beauty of unsubstantiated conspiracy theories - they're practically impossible to disprove.

And it's not a conspiracy theory. Google, has, in the past buried sites that they thought were harmful to Google. There was also the time they imposed a one year total press blackout on CNet after CNet reported something about Google that Google didn't like... Something CNet found on Google btw.

Thom already said he was going to post it. Furthermore, he just finished posting some other news about a search engine competitor and he's been vocal about how he dislikes Google's privacy policies. Yet somehow national public news that anyone can easily find out about on a tiny website like OSNews is enough to get Google to specifically blacklist the site? That just doesn't make any sense. Give Thom a day or two to actually publish the story before you start claiming that Google hacked into their servers and is blackmailing them.

Manipulation of search rankings to further Google's own services at the expense of competitors is one of the issues of the antitrust lawsuit actually.

Let's say this is actually true (and furthering one's own services is not the same as deliberately blacklisting websites they don't like). Continuing this behavior after getting sued by the government for doing it would be just about the stupidest thing Google could possibly do right now. Google is a lot of things - stupid isn't one of them.

Edited 2011-06-29 18:16 UTC

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pantheraleo Member since:
2007-03-07

Give Thom a day or two to actually publish the story before you start claiming that Google hacked into their servers and is blackmailing them.


Who said anything about hacking?

Also though, I submitted the story on Friday. OSNews obviously isn't going to publish it. There's no point anymore. It's 5 day old news now.

Continuing this behavior after getting sued by the government for doing it would be just about the stupidest thing Google could possibly do right now.


They haven't been sued yet. They are just being investigated by the DOJ. A determination of whether any antitrust regulatory action will be taken against Google remains to be seen.

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smitty Member since:
2005-10-13

Who said anything about hacking?

OK, you're right. You only accused them of blackmailing.

I know Thom said it somehow was removed from the queue accidentally, and I was taking that further to mean you thought Google did it. But it could also just mean Thom was lying to us, because he was being blackmailed.

Edited 2011-06-29 18:29 UTC

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