Whats the problem with Google??
I was out sick when you asked.
User Error !!
Nope, it's not user error... it's Personal!
I had a website years ago, with a nonsense word for the url.
Naturally, I checked for the nonsense word in search engines just for fun.
Within hours yahoo found the site. Within days everyone - ask jeeves, lycos, and every other search engine I could find would return the usual listing for the site.
Except google!!
After a month, I sent google an email asking why they couldn't find my site. They were supposed to be such a great search engine, I had to know what was up.
They told me I never submitted the site, so they never indexed it.
Sounded fishy to me, but I bit anyhow - and asked how to submit my site.
The instructions included PAYING A FEE!!!
I was outraged.
How DARE they call themselves a search engine when everyone else found my site, but they only list things people pay them to list!!
I thought it was Extortion to demand Money for their service to find my little website!! When all the engine had to do was put the search term in between www. and .com!! All the other engines figured it out.
That started it.
Long after that, they started another Evil Campaign - this digital library where they want to steal everyone's books, copyrighted works or not. And whether the authors consented or not!! I found it funny that they called it a compromise when they EXPECTED the courts to completely reverse copyright law for them by saying that any author, anywhere in the world who does not want their works would have to send them an "opt-out" letter.
Sorry.
That's not how copyright works. The answer should have been for anyone who wants in to "opt-in" or else they risk people getting included who never heard of the project but would object anyhow.
But that's another, very long, story.
I maintain my anti-google stand. I am invisible to them while browsing, and anything that has their logo displayed, or a built in link to them which I can not remove from my site and my system is not a thing I wish to support. I can't use the Opera Browser for this reason. Damn google search field is linked to the address field can't be removed except by hiding the address bar too. I value the address bar when using the internet - can't type url's without it!! So I simply can't use Opera.
Their loss. I have many options. (by the way, DivX was uninstalled - It's not their place to hijack my browser!!)
Evil must be Fought! I only have anything to do with them when I am getting paid by a website to help them, and they are interested in gathering keyword data for and from google.
I don't expect to sway anyone else with thee arguments (too many folks think google are nice) but I still have my Principles, and wont support google in any way, shape, or form.
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Wow...
Fun with 3 year old threads!