"José van Dijck of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands argues that search engines in general, and Google Scholar in particular, have become significant co-producers of academic knowledge, rather than neutral tools. Google Scholar is a service [which] claims to search diverse sources from one convenient place, to find information in a range ( Read more... )

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/8083008/Google-spied-on-British-emails-and-computer-passwords.html

Google Wave...what was that all about? Er, it doesn't matter now ( Read more... )

Tsk. Like nobody warned you.

Details: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/03/google_street_view_hack/

(Cheers to Tom F.)

Of course, if Toni Bowers had spent less time looking up her name on a search engine, and devoted a little more to checking her spelling, she might not have mangled (and misused) the word "doppelganger ( Read more... )

...but it might make you mental:

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Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlZsPTWXqts

Edit: Bonus video and Rain Fall notes in the comments.

The story was all over the FT and the Telegraph today as well, but cheers to everyone who sent me this link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8533551.stm

'For a company whose unofficial slogan is "Don't Be Evil," Google has been ignoring its so-called core value with alarming frequency as of late. And because of that, I decided to delete my Gmail account, along with all other Google services that I am able to do without. I have also deleted as much personal information as possible from my Google ( Read more... )

Or at least some of it.

Here's how: http://www.ghacks.net/2010/02/13/cancel-google/

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Bonus item: Absolutely hypnotic...

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Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= ( Read more... )

I'm still working through the inboxes after completing The Big Project, so if I haven't got to your missive/s yet, please bear with me. However, from the Subject lines alone, there seems to be a theme developing around some serious Google-related badness ( Read more... )