And by "slur", I meant inconvenient truths.

Scrutiny of this is both necessary snd dangerous...

He who controls the past, controls the future.

Just sayin'

6079 Smith W, please report to the office of Rick Santorum immediately.

and it doesn't save your information.

I use https://startpage.com

Changing from google won't change search results they apply but it takes away their support.

We need completely new independent search engines not the aggregated ones that exist..

Google has better funding.

President Obama, though.

seems like a noteworthy quote from the article.

Just part of the dumbing down process.


Thanks for the thread, babylonsister.

On Google Maps of all places. Fred Goodwin, the former RBS CEO, has requested his house not to show up on Google maps.

Indeed, if you go to the street it's on, you try to go forward a little bit, it takes you right to the end of the street, bypassing all the houses, not just Goodwin's, on the street.

It sets a dangerous precedent.

which is what the article about Goodwin's house refers to.

If you click on 'report a problem' when you are in Street View mode (rather than the satellite imagery), you can request that they blur specific property. (I don't know what the process is to confirm that the person filing the report on an address actually lives there.)

As a result, Street View in Germany (which covers only the larger cities) can be annoying to look at, because of extensive blurring. In numerous cases, the upper part of apartment buildings is blurred out with the ground floor still showing the stores that are there.

The more it gets googled, the harder to bury the scandal.

Stanley O'Neal Google Search Controversy

The Streisand effect is the phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely, usually facilitated by the Internet.

It is named after American entertainer Barbra Streisand, whose attempt in 2003 to suppress photographs of her residence in Malibu, California, inadvertently generated further publicity. Similar attempts have been made, for example, in cease-and-desist letters, to suppress numbers, files and websites. Instead of being suppressed, the information receives extensive publicity and media extensions such as videos and spoof songs, often being widely mirrored across the Internet or distributed on file-sharing networks.[1][2]

According to a report from Reuters, a Goldman Sachs contractor was testing changes to the company's internal systems to meet the requirements of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. By mistake, the contractor sent a client's confidential brokerage account information to someone's gmail.com account, rather than the correct gs.com account.

The privacy breach occurred on June 23, which is long enough ago that the person could already have read the mistakenly-sent email. Nevertheless, Goldman Sachs has asked a US judge to issue a court order demanding Google delete the offending email, in an attempt to prevent further damages.

Before Goldman Sachs went to the courts, they attempted to reach out to the Gmail account holder to retrieve the report, but got no response. They also contacted Google for assistance, but were told an email cannot be deleted from another person's account without a court order.

Completely untrustworthy. Ick.