It’s not usually I blog stuff I see on other blogs (you know Blog Will Eat Itself and all that) but rarely you see something that has to be broadcast on all channels in big fluffy flashing neon lights with a few klaxons and air raid sirens thrown in…one of these is the recent news that Google has banned C:Net aka News Com from talking to them for a year! Why?
Well they dared reveal publically searchable information about the CEO of Google via, yes you guessed it, Google…obviously Google has ignored the first rule of the internet, you never put information out there unless you want the whole world to know; but it was fairly trivial information, it’s not like Paris Hilton with those hacked mobile phone numbers…
No I do think this is a smokescreen – what probably offended them more was the revelations about Google’s extensive capture of data about their customers; which is well worth reinforcing – ironic how they don’t see a problem with potentially invasive data capture but are really touchy about their CEO suffering same. Double standard?
The questions and accusations around Googlezon corporateness which sadly this ban proved the point the article was making.
Getting far too big for their boots I say – it’s about time for another new kid on the search engine block and they start to feel what Yahoo and Altavista and Lycos have felt…maybe they’d learn some humility.
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