Re: google_desktop_tool
According to Paul Johnson,
> On Saturday 22 April 2006 09:08, Juraj Fedel wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 05:31:39PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > > On Friday 21 April 2006 12:09, steef wrote:
> > > The functionality that you're panicking about is disabled by default.
> > > You have to go out of your way to turn it on.
> >
> > This is also very dangerous in my opinion. User will install it and get
> > used to it. Then one day google will enable by default. Guess how
> > many users will be aware of this?
>
> You give Google too little credit. Except for the whole China thing, when has
> Google done the wrong thing? They're number 1 and have a strong bottom line
> because they put the users first, not their bottom line.
Indeed. And even in the China case, when you hear the whole
story, what Google did is not as bad as it might first
appear. Their employees in China are of course subject to
Chinese law and government prosecution so Google's only
other option would be to pull out completely. It's better
to index what they can and hope that smart people can talk
about democracy without actually using the word etc. than
index nothing at all. Contrast Google's behavior to Yahoo's,
who actually helped the Chinese government identify a
dissident blogger who was then imprisoned.
Tony
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