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googles sketchup for eg is good and easy but when the guy goes advance and use different file types it sucks bad
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Off Topic Apr 5: The Beast File: Google
Apr 5: The Beast File: Google
21 repliesgoogles sketchup for eg is good and easy but when the guy goes advance and use different file types it sucks bad
"Let's catalogue the internet..."
Now early on, there weren't very many websites to watch, so this was easy and allowed time to develop code. Time they did not waste at all. They came up with faster and more precise algorithms to scan pages for information to categorise them and much more.
As time progressed and baby Google grew in monstrous popularity, Google began it's AdSense advertising structure which, being the popular nature of Google exploded into bountiful revenue and profits for Google and AdSense customers alike. This became its main source of income and wealth.
Google, realising its position in the market and the opportunity that it presented again wasted no time in snapping up new ideas and small companies with excellent output. This has allowed it to stay at the forefront of internet search as well as break into many markets.
As it has progressed, it has grown out of the basic concept roots that it grew from and is no longer an attempt at cataloguing the internet. Slowly drifting away from the human side of its origins and becoming a corporate giant in an ever-changing industry.
Most people don't realise though, even from the very beginning, it wanted to catalogue everything. And that means everything about you...
However, although this can seem like some evil miscreant monster, you have to see it on a business side. You don't actually have to give them that much information to use their services, hell, you can even blatantly lie in most cases and they can't really argue with you. A lot of digital information is based on trust, as we've seen with wikipedia and paypal. Each have certain levels where trust must be assumed from the business.
They say google watches your searches and keeps a track of them for 18 months, but what information is in that report? It's unlikely it will be anything more than your visible IP and your router's MAC address (your PC MAC if you don't have a router). There are many ways to obfuscate both your mac and IP if you really are that paranoid, or if they come knocking and ask "Have you been searching for this, that and the other?" say "No officer, I've only just learned my router was mysteriously wirelessly hacked and my internet used without my knowledge. I wouldn't possibly search for..." You get the idea.
Although the digital age begs us to share, humans by nature are secretive and we've used that for millenia to survive. Don't stop now. Go into anything with caution. I love DC for making a site that asks as few questions as possible. You guys don't need to know my real name, or my age, where I live or if I like toast with butter on. We need to use this type of thinking in all our online accounts. Only put on what is vital, nothing else.
This is a bit rambling and quite jumbled, but all this buzz (*yak*) over Google is making me laugh. People just have to learn more about how their computer works and how to stay anonymous. It's your right to expose yourself. It's your freedom to stay quite.
Something interesting:
TOR (The onion ring) http://www.torproject.org/
This little program is cool, very cool. Very... Very... Very cool. Yes, that cool. But bloody complex.
What this does is, it start an internal sever on your pc that filters all your web requests. wipes prints and then encrypted, sends the requests along an anonymous chain before finally unencrypting it and sending it out from an anonymous node that could be anywhere. China, Russia, Germany, USA, UK, hell anywhere. All you have to do is tell your browser to use a proxy (which is the server on your machine!). They've got lots of documentation and this can give true anonymity to websearching, however, this may not be suitable for Internet Banking or dealing with financial transactions securely. The best way for them is to actually go their process and connect as normal with no defence. ;/