Wolf Cries Google
Michael Gray get’s a little tiresome with the slamming of Google constantly but I am glad that there is a watchdog out there. I totally agree with his position here.
I learned quite a few things at SMX West last week, perhaps one of the most irksome was learning Google’s policy about conference presentations. Google does not share or allow any of thier conference presentations to be put online … period.Let’s recap shall we …
* Google thinks it’s ok to go and scan books without asking publishers first, and only removing them when publishers complain.
* Google thinks it’s ok to scrape spider, cache, and archive your content and wrap their advertising around it whether you want them to or not.
* Google’s mission statement is … “Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”
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