The only interest google has, is money. It achieves money troght power. Google is like a “power-money” machine. And it would do anything it needs to get the most of it than it can. Even inmoral, unethical, things. But also it would have to cover by thiose things that could compromise its moiney and power if discovered and exposed. Secretism and censorship shall be used by google to cover the moves that would not have been aproved by government and/or society.

When we learned three weeks ago that Google was planning on curtailing AdWords from rogue pharmacies, we moved this page to our archives. Now we’re moving it back to the front, because Google is having a hard time withdrawing from all the money they’re making. We’re also upset over Google’s remarkable luck with press spin. Many headlines and stories we’ve seen imply that Google is the crusading good guy on this issue. In fact, Google is the last holdout. Even after AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo and Overture just said “no” to rogue online pharmacies, Google’s Larry Page was quoted in the Wall Street Journal (October 31) as calling the campaign against rogue pharmacies “highly commercially motivated,” and even claimed that he was protecting consumers, rather than getting teenagers addicted to opiates: “As a matter of principle, we want to have free choice for consumers … even if we get some hassles for it.” He should have just admitted that Google is making tons of money off of rogue pharmacy ads. If those ads aren’t gone by the time Congress holds hearings on the issue, we hope Mr. Page will be invited to explain himself.”

According to DEA, Google is breaking the law: “Title 21, United States Code, section 843(b) defines a communication facility as ‘any and all public and private instrumentalities used or useful in the transmission of writing, signs, signals, pictures or sounds of all kinds and includes mail, telephone, wire, radio, and all other means of communication.’ Anyone who uses the Internet to facilitate the illegal sale of a controlled substance would be in violation of 21 U.S.C. 843(b), which is punishable by a term of imprisonment of not more than four years and a fine of not more than $30,000. This provision could apply to owners of Internet sites, prescribers, pharmacists, and patients.”

“GOOGLE AGENTS ARE SPAMMING THIS TOPIC BECAUSE THEY DON’t WANT THE BAD PUBLIC IMAGE THEY DESERVE FOR BEING EVIL.”

and that sounds like a stupid conspiracy theory and has no proof.

The only REAL objective post here against google is this one:

“If they [webmasters] try to take advantage of some of the known weaknesses in Google’s semi-secret algorithms, they may find themselves penalized by Google, and their traffic disappears. There are no detailed, published standards issued by Google, and there is no appeal process for penalized sites. Google is completely unaccountable. Most of the time Google doesn’t even answer email from webmasters.”

Now, I believe their algorithms are secret because if everyone knew them they would misuse them to put their site on eg. third instead of 300. place, and google sees this in their checkups and naturaly they fight those guys, who I think are a greater evil than google, because they are the ones who want to control the internet.

And one more thing- Google is fed by users, not commercials or goverment, so google’s interest is to staisfy them, not anything else or anyone else!

As for different results in different countries, I’ve read about the China incident, and the trick is that google works normally there just like in any other country but when some Chin or Chow types eg. “CHINA IS EVIL” he can see all the sites but is redirected from them bsy his own goverment, nothing to do with google…

And as for the pricks who compare socialism with google, you’re idiots. socialism is the system where the state holds all acquisitions, and google is a private firm, unable to exist in any other system other than capitalism…

any other ’sane’ objections to google?

I seriously thing this is Googles brand of censorship in action.
Fucking EVIL Bastards.

want a successful web business? pray to your god google.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlebomb

“However, the first Google bomb mentioned in the popular press may have occurred accidentally in 1999, when users discovered that the query “more evil than Satan (http://www.google.com/search?q=more+evil+than+Satan)” returned Microsoft’s home page. Now, it returns links to several news articles on the discovery.”

Hint: it’s something we’ve known all along.