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disolitude on 08 July 2009
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shio said:
disolitude said:
shio said:
NJ5 said:
I don't think I would use a Google OS, not immediately at least. Google's privacy practices are very bad. I don't know if this will be the case, but I wouldn't be surprised if a Google OS constantly sends information about what I'm doing on the computer to Google, for targeted ads or whatever.

What you're saying is pretty much what every single major website does. Amazon for example takes information of what products you have visited, and then recommends you products based on that.

Also, there's no company as "evil" as Microsft, which absolutely abuses their monopoly status and illegaly makes pressure on the retailers just to stab rival companies. On a 1 to 10 scale of "evilness", Google is a 4/10, while Microsoft is a 10/10.


Wow...you are completely full of it.

I work with Google...infact its right across the street and we play rockband at lunch sometime(on a 360).

Also I work with Microsoft who are great. Both companies employ smart and hard working people. Again, the point here is that you are full of it and don't know what you're talking about at all.

wow, listen to yourself. Microsoft has a HUGE negative rapsheet and have done so many dirty deeds that it's nearly unlimited. That is a known fact, and the fact that you base your opinion of Microsoft on the characters of just a few people you know that work there is silly. They may be hard-working and smart, but is irrelevant because unless those people are all the honchos at MS your statement has no credibility. And even if you know Gates, Palmer, etc.. anyone, no matter how virtuous he is, is able to the most horrendous action, especially if he thinks he won't get caught.

If you want a sample of how "honest" Microsoft is, then look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft

And what I talked earlier, it's called Behavioral Targeting, I would know because I wrote a paper about it for college. So maybe you should do some research

lol...you list about microsoft criticism yet have absolutely have no idea of Google business practises.

Behavioral targeting is cookie based and works on the principal of - user clicked on BMW banner A...lets show him BMW banner B... This is notcriticism of google as everyone does it.

Google owns the largest ad server in the busines called Dart doubleclick and they also own the most used website analytic tool called google analytcs. Therefore they know exactly howmuch microsoft is charging for thier search and yahoo charging for their display ads. They have the info right there in Dart.

Also they know how much traffic any site that uses google analytics has...

Now tell me if anyone that kows how online advertising works wouldn't have a problem with this. Also what is this called...I believe a monopoly. Even worse monopoly than MS in OS department...who can't even include IE in their Windows OS's anymore in Europe.