tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9191890.post110779054754063404..comments2023-10-29T09:52:20.556-04:00Comments on The Pondering Primate: A Google Bubble?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9191890.post-77266406391674372662008-01-27T18:22:00.000-05:002008-01-27T18:22:00.000-05:00Ten Things to Love about the "Goo".Only the feeble...Ten Things to Love about the "Goo".<BR/><BR/>Only the feeble might of the European Commission for competition can stand up to Google in its attempts to swallow up DoubleClick now. Appropriately enough the commission will give the results of its in-depth review of the takeover on April 1st. <BR/><BR/>All fools day will probably see Google (or 'Goo' as 'antigooglites' think of the internet company) make fools of us all. Google is like an ogre or the domineering bride of Shakespeare's 'Taming of the Shrew'.<BR/><BR/>Here are 10 Things to love about Google:<BR/><BR/>1. Don't you just love the baby name? "Oochy coochy Googly", but really more like the motherese of the step mom from hell.<BR/><BR/>2. Don't you just love the logo? "Look at all the bright colours, what fun". Like a toy, sanitized and censored by the overbearing parent.<BR/><BR/>3. Don't you just love that Mother knows best? "Don't question the results of your search. We have the big picture". Just see the nice adverts and pay up.<BR/><BR/>4. Don't you just love the dry diet? "Now now, everything you need is here". Where has all the mystery and spontaneity gone? Step mom knows best and she's going to keep her algorithms close to her suffocating chest.<BR/><BR/>5. Don't you just love the 'strip search'? "We know where you go and what you see so we can take care of you". Privacy, even alone with your computer, is a thing of the past.<BR/><BR/>6. Don't you just love the stalking cookie monster? "Trust us! We know where you live". It's a fatal attraction. Next thing you know they'll boil your pet rabbit.<BR/><BR/>7. Don't you just love being fair game? "We only give personal data to others that we trust". And the more they pay the more they're trusted.<BR/><BR/>9. Don't you just love the data bank? "Don't worry you'll never lose anything we can't find for you". With DoubleClick in the house there is so much data available that marketing becomes laser guided precision selling.<BR/><BR/>10. Don't you just love the greed? "Don't worry that $3.1 billion is way over the top for DoubleClick. Only the best for our service users and we can afford it". Actually we don't really need it, but we can't let anybody else have it either.<BR/><BR/>Shakespeare's shrew is saved by love but Google will probably get by the competition authorities with some promises of good behaviour around privacy. Watch this space for the alternative view!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com