Google in sheep's clothing.

Google - I'm Unfriending You ... you untrustworthy, money-grubbing son-of-a-microsoft

I'm baaccckk --- as Google.

(2011 Dec blog post)

!Preliminary! A little more information, and more links, may be added later.

I used to use Google search, and when I would try another search engine like Yahoo's, I would feel a warm fuzzy feeling for Google --- because Google distinctly showed the 'sponsored' ads, isolated, on the right of the page of search results. I used to find Yahoo's approach --- putting the sponsored ads at the top and bottom of a page of search results with no clear demarcation between the search results and the ads --- REALLY, REALLY OFFENSIVE. Well, guess what? Sometime in 2011 Google started doing the same thing! Sponsored ads started showing up at the top and bottom of each page --- WITH NO CLEAR INDICATION OF WHERE THE SPONSORED ADS STOP AND WHERE THE SEARCH RESULTS BEGIN. I always found it offensive that Google is tracking everyone's searches and saving their search queries for years and years --- apparently as long as they have digitial storage space to do so. This 'sponsored ads creep' --- from the right-side of the search pages into the search results --- is the last straw for me. No matter how much Google executives insist, in interviews, that they are beneficent 'philospher kings' who mean only the best for their users --- well, the evidence is TOTALLY TO THE CONTRARY. From now on, I am using less obnoxious search engines, such as DuckDuckGo, which has a stated policy of avoiding many of the obnoxious practices of Google. Google ... consider yourself un-friended.

Zip-up, Google. The true you is showing.

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