Everybody in the world has to deal with Google-stalkers, except Google’s CEO, of course:
CNETNews.com, a technology news Web site, said last week that Google had told it that the company would not answer any questions from CNET’s reporters until July 2006. The move came after CNET published an article last month that discussed how the Google search engine can uncover personal information and that raised questions about what information Google collects about its users.
The article, by Elinor Mills, a CNET staff writer, gave several examples of information about Google’s chief executive, Eric E. Schmidt, that could be gleaned from the search engine. These included that his shares in the company were worth $1.5 billion, that he lived in Atherton, Calif., that he was the host of a $10,000-a-plate fund-raiser for Al Gore’s presidential campaign and that he was a pilot.
After the article appeared, David Krane, Google’s director of public relations, called CNET editors to complain, said Jai Singh, the editor in chief of CNETNews.com. “They were unhappy about the fact we used Schmidt’s private information in our story,” Mr. Singh said. “Our view is what we published was all public information, and we actually used their own product to find it.”
Google was supposed to be committed to not being evil, but this act of childish malice belies that claim.
Gee, I wonder if they’re going to demote my site again for saying this. Oh well.
And on top of that, they heavily favor terrorist sypathizers, anti-Israeli, and other lefty-wacko sites for their “news” sources.
Google’s probably overrun with Buddhists.