It is Google's twelve birthday today. But before you cheer too loudly a word of warning that means that next year the world's leading search engine with be a teenager and we all know what they are like.
So here are the top 10 things you won't be able to ask Google in 365 days time.
10. Restaurants - Unless it has a drive through, a bucket of chicken, or a golden arch you'll not find it. The fast food van outside the school will get 3 Michelin stars whereas the Fat Duck will be just 'Bleugh!'
9. Medical advice - You'll only get the really disgusting stuff, if you looking up how to cure a common cold you'll not find it.
8. Clothes - Will return you things you 'wouldn't leave the house wearing that!' at least that is what you'd be thinking.
7. Gay - will just return anything uncool
6. Politics - BOOOORING!
5. Drink - Alcopops, Strong Cider or Buckfast. Hard luck all you wine, whisk(e)y or real ale connoisseurs
4. Education - Meh!
3. News - Very few teenagers when asked about the news will give you the latest goings on outside of X-Factor, Britain's Got Talent or whats in Heat or Zoo. So move over Paxman it'll all be Perez Hilton.
2. Directions - Teenagers have great fun in misdirecting motorists. Therefore Google maps will soon be inoperative.
1. Sex - Like a typical teenager it will run off in embarrassment if you are older than it. If you are fellow teen you will get misinformation or boosting of knowing more than it actually does. Therefore porn will not be searchable, unless you take your laptop under the duvet.
Now on the 27 September next year don't say I didn't warn you.
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Monday, 27 September 2010
Wednesday, 13 January 2010
Google Release Self from Chinese Fetters
Google has made a stand against the censorship imposed on its Chinese service. They are to stop the self censorship of its search engine results.
The news comes as a result of a serious cyber attack from within China on Google and 20 other global brands, stealing part of their intellectual property. It has discovered that the Gmail accounts of dozens of US-, China- and Europe-based users who are advocates of human rights in China appeared to have been routinely accessed by third parties. As part of these malicious attacks only personal account information appears to have been targeted. They originate in China but Google do not name where they think these attempts to hack into accounts is coming from.
Human Rights Watch praised the decision saying, "A transnational attack on privacy is chilling, and Google's response sets a great example."
However, Google say that they are not sharing this information because of the security or human rights issues "but because this information goes to the heart of a much bigger global debate about freedom of speech".
Over the next couple of weeks they will be in discussion with Chinese authorities to see if an unfettered Google can operate within the law in China. The world leading search engine admits that if this cannot be done they may have to close their Chinese operations.
It is a great, bold and courageous step for Google to have made. Are the attacks against them to gain information that the Chinese have censored? Or to get information from the authorities on those that they don't want to speak? Or a direct attack on Google for kow-towing to the Chinese demands to self-censor? While the motivation for the attacks is not clear the message that Google are sending is you can either take the entirety of the world's online knowledge or leave it.
There is too be no more bowing to powers that be over what is or isn't acceptable for their citizens to view, that is for them to decide. Of course some sites which are of a global security concern that Google and ISPs will continue to hunt down and shut. But just because a site lays out an opinion that a regime doesn't necessarily agree with is not going to be a reason that such a site isn't searchable on that country's specific server.
In the last year as well as China censoring material available online, the Iranian authorities have tried to prevent news from within their borders getting out via new media, and other regimes have also tried to supress the inflow or outpouring of cyber messages to or from their citizens. Google are saying "we are the world" we now have a way of getting information that should know no boundaries, be free for all to hear
The news comes as a result of a serious cyber attack from within China on Google and 20 other global brands, stealing part of their intellectual property. It has discovered that the Gmail accounts of dozens of US-, China- and Europe-based users who are advocates of human rights in China appeared to have been routinely accessed by third parties. As part of these malicious attacks only personal account information appears to have been targeted. They originate in China but Google do not name where they think these attempts to hack into accounts is coming from.
Human Rights Watch praised the decision saying, "A transnational attack on privacy is chilling, and Google's response sets a great example."
However, Google say that they are not sharing this information because of the security or human rights issues "but because this information goes to the heart of a much bigger global debate about freedom of speech".
Over the next couple of weeks they will be in discussion with Chinese authorities to see if an unfettered Google can operate within the law in China. The world leading search engine admits that if this cannot be done they may have to close their Chinese operations.
It is a great, bold and courageous step for Google to have made. Are the attacks against them to gain information that the Chinese have censored? Or to get information from the authorities on those that they don't want to speak? Or a direct attack on Google for kow-towing to the Chinese demands to self-censor? While the motivation for the attacks is not clear the message that Google are sending is you can either take the entirety of the world's online knowledge or leave it.
There is too be no more bowing to powers that be over what is or isn't acceptable for their citizens to view, that is for them to decide. Of course some sites which are of a global security concern that Google and ISPs will continue to hunt down and shut. But just because a site lays out an opinion that a regime doesn't necessarily agree with is not going to be a reason that such a site isn't searchable on that country's specific server.
In the last year as well as China censoring material available online, the Iranian authorities have tried to prevent news from within their borders getting out via new media, and other regimes have also tried to supress the inflow or outpouring of cyber messages to or from their citizens. Google are saying "we are the world" we now have a way of getting information that should know no boundaries, be free for all to hear
Thursday, 23 April 2009
Wherefore Art Thou
Have to admit that turning on my computer this morning this made me giggle.
Yeah goggle.co.uk decided to rewrite mythology for St. George's day. Which this scene from St. George and Juliet to mark St. George's day and Shakespeare's birthday. St. Geroge's wooing of the dragon.
Yeah goggle.co.uk decided to rewrite mythology for St. George's day. Which this scene from St. George and Juliet to mark St. George's day and Shakespeare's birthday. St. Geroge's wooing of the dragon.
O St. George, St. George! wherefore art thou St. George?
Deny thy calling and refuse thy sword;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I'll no longer be a fire, breathing pest.
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