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Ever wonder what goes on inside Google? Or how Google works? What is it like to work at one of the coolest companies in the world? How is Google trying to accomplish their goals of organizing the world’s information?
There is also discussion on the controversial aspects of Google’s business such as privacy of search history and book scanning.
This is a great documentary on the eight year old company that went from a dorm room idea to a multi billion dollar media and advertising conglomerate.
There is a bit of Google bashing going on in this. Not so much bashing - but inquiries on how the algorithms work. There are questions about Google’s intentions and whether results could possibly (if they wanted) be biased. Another focus for the video is privacy - since Google knows your search history. Google knows more about you than you may know so there is a certain level of trust that required by its users. Are they Big Brother? Marissa Meyer says no.
There is also discussion of the controversial issue of Google’s book search. The goal is to digitize the world’s books to make them available online and searchable. The Internet Archive wants Google to join them - they won’t because of proprietary technology (their digitizing robot). The Google Book Search product manager seemed a bit flustered as he stuttered on questions relayed from the Internet Archive director.
What do you think about the ethics of Google? Do you trust them? Are they just another corporation that wishes to monetize the world’s information? Is Google the next monopoly?
I’d probably let Google hire me.
Tags: Google, Documentary, Video, Business, Ethics
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Currants » Google Video
November 4th, 2006 at 12:34 am
1[...] When Searching about privacy issues, I came across this blog that shows a video regarding Google. It is a long video, but if you check out parts of it, it discusses how Google stands on privacy and how some worry about google’s true intentions. A question is even asked to a lady that works for google about how the image of the company potentially is as Big Brother. She basically responds that she does not view it as such. Interesting, how nieve can she be. With all the information that the company is obtaining through its services, how can she ignore this potential? I recommend seeing the video starting at 21 minutes and then again around 43 minutes. Liked It? Share It! Clicking on the icons below will help other people learn about this storyThese icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]
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