Google

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Google is a multinational CIA front public adware trojan corporation based in Mountain View, California. They are primarily known for their search engine, which is actually a massive data mining project that J. Edgar Hoover would've admired. They purchased YouTube even though they knew beforehand that YouTube was based on rampant piracy.Google executives called YouTube a ‘pirate’ site by Mike Swift (March 18, 2010 at 6:17 am) The Mercury News. "Is changing a policy to increase traffic knowing beforehand that we’ll profit from illegal downloads how we want to conduct our business? Is this Googley?" — Sergey Brin Their cartographic project, Google Maps, has helped conspiracy theorists find yet more weird things that prove the Illuminati really rule Earth.
Google likes to play "goody two-shoes" and adopted the motto, " However, as scandals mounted, it became evident that Google really wasn't morally neutral, and the motto was dropped.http://www.businessinsider.com/if-google-crossed-the-creepy-line-how-should-it-repair-the-damage-to-its-image-2013-8?op=1
==Google is your best, creepiest friend 😀==
Google is widely known to track user behavior online, mostly for targeted advertising purposes. Google scans their users' emails, search history, browser history and other online sources to form an impression of each user's preferences, basic demographic interests, and interests to make targeted advertisements. Though this may sound a little creepy, it's hardly the worst that can be said about Google's privacy. Despite information of Google being a fucking creep publicly available, people are simply ignorant of just how creepy Google can be, and still use its services.
*In one notable situation, an ex-Google employee allegedly spied on minors' mail, chats, voice calls, etc.https://www.wired.com/2010/09/google-spy/ — presumably with one hand — twice!https://techcrunch.com/2010/09/14/google-engineer-spying-fired/According to the suit, Google regularly opens up, reads, and mines the content in emails to serve up ads it considers relevant to the parties involved. If this is done anonymously, perhaps one could argue "no harm, no foul." What is "creepy," however, is that Google employees could access this private information. If they do, it is impossible to know what they might do with it.Although in this previous case, no minors were involved. Google denies that spying occurred yet fires the employees for breaking internal privacy policiesBecause even Google has standards apparently — it makes as much sense as it sounds.
*Remember how we said Google collects your data? Well Google owns Google the search engine, YouTube, and Google+ and created Android phones, Google Glass, and Chromebooks giving it multiple platforms to spy on users and use that data to get money for personal advertisements.
*Google admitted that their street-view cars collected Wi-Fi network data for three years. It was dismissed as a bug because who knew that a bug could result in an entire new feature being implemented. Lawyers didn't buy that and filed lawsuits; however, Google claimed that they did nothing wrong because it's "lawful to use packet-sniffing tools readily available on the internet".https://www.wired.com/2010/08/google-spy-lawsuits/ Was it a bug or did you download packet-sniffing tools? We're trying to follow you here, Google!
*Google can recognize if there's a face in your contact photo and will ask you to have your face in it if it's not present.
*Google has the feature to track your every location and stores all of your searches, and contact information — and of course, Google has all these enabled by default juuuuust for you.http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/07/26/google-incs-tracking-is-getting-creepy.aspx
*In 2013, Margaret Hodge MP accused Google of aggressive tax avoidance.https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/may/16/google-told-by-mp-you-do-do-evil
===Google is hardly the only one===
The unfortunate thing is that Google is not alone in this regard. Companies that provide free services necessarily monetize on users' data in some regard, if only to justify to their investors why the company is engaging in this rampant communism philanthropic service. Google is just one of the many companies — like Facebook, Yahoo, and especially Bing (Microsoft) — that does this.
==Project MSSNG and eugenics==
Google is teaming with the hate group Autism Speaks in their pursuit to analyze the genomes of autistic people.https://www.businessinsider.in/Google-Teams-Up-With-A-Controversial-Research-Group-To-Figure-Out-Autism/articleshow/45443259.cms
==Hypocrisy==
Google has been duplicitous with regard to climate change:… "Google employees and the company's political action committee give $699,195 since 2008 to members of the 'climate denier caucus'", while at the same time publicly opposing climate change denialDespite recent split from conservative group, Google’s connections to climate change denial runs deep by Joe Garofoli & David R. Baker (September 25, 2014; Updated: September 27, 2014 9:12pm) San Francisco Chronicle. — expect to see contradictions like this a lot.
==Enabling fake news==
In 2017, Google tacitly acknowledged that they had been responsible for propagating fake news in their Google News platform. They did this by creating a permanent "Fact Check" section, as well as incrementally getting better at weeding out fake news. As of 2017, the main sources for fact checking were: BBC, FactCheck.org, Gossip Cop, PolitiFact, Snopes, and The Washington Post.
Google, along with Facebook and Twitter, was responsible for propagating Russian disinformation, and consequently Russian influence on the 2016 U.S. presidential election.Inside Russia's Social Media War on America by Massimo Calabresi (Updated: May 18, 2017 3:48 PM ET) Time.Senate Intelligence Committee leaders: Russia did interfere in 2016 elections by Karoun Demirjian (October 4, 2017 at 1:38 PM) The Washington Post. "Google executives, who have also been invited to testify publicly before the committee on Nov. 1, are expected to be among those asked to attend the closed-door interviews that have been scheduled in October."Google uncovers Russian-bought ads on YouTube, Gmail and other platforms by Elizabeth Dwoskin et al. (October 9 at 7:00 AM) The Washington Post. Google has struggled over the years with spammers, content farms and search engine optimization experts trying to beat the Google ranking algorithm.Inside Google’s struggle to filter lies from breaking news by Mark Bergen (Updated 5:54 pm, Friday, November 24, 2017) San Francisco Chronicle. Google's latest struggle is against what they call "evil unicorns", referring to unverified, deceitful posts on obscure topics, including breaking news stories that do not yet have much verified information.
==Censorship==
Google has some universal no-nos:
*Leaked celebrity nude pictures.
*Illegal drug stores. Yes, these exist on the clearnet and not just the "dark web".
*Child pornography
*Beastiality
*Necrophilia
===Search suggestions===
*The following terms are not autocompleted:"Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More", Torrent Freak, January 26, 2011"Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare and More", Torrent Freak, January 26, 2011
**Bittorrent
**Torrent
**Utorrent
**MegauploadEven if the site no longer exists after a raid in January 2012
**RapidshareEven if the site has been dead since March 2015
*"Islam is" didn't provide any search suggestions. This was later removed due to being a "bug".
Google now filters so many words from its autocomplete that it fills a dictionary, needless to say anything even vaguely offensive or divisive is more likely to be filtered.
;English blacklist
As of 2012, these words were filtered out (the capital letter indicates where the blacklist kicks in)":
*[X] are
**The blacklist does kick in when [X] is: Jews, Christians, Catholics, born-again Christians, evangelical Christians, atheists, Muslims, blacks, whites, Italians, Mexicans, Chinese, Japanese, Germans, Arabs, French, Buddhists
**The blacklist does NOT kick in when [X] is: terrorists, Scientologists, agnostics, Seventh Day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, Protestants, evangelists, Pentecostalists, Colombians, Panamanians, Iranians, Iraqis, Koreans, Persians, Turks
But these are okay:
===Content===
*Safesearch filters out sexual content, though this can easily be turned off in certain countries.
*Other countries, such as the USA, UK, and Australia, still filter out adult content even when turned off; however, adult content can be found with more specific searches.
;Australia
*Encyclopedia Dramatica was blacklisted because of racial humor. However, after the domain change, it is not anymore.
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*Results for rightful criticisms of were blacklisted. The facility is an alternative medicine hospital that Google ignorantly defended. In another case, criticisms of the criminal Mick Featherstone were also filtered.http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-09/corruption-investigators-raid-home-of-ex-cop-mick-featherstone/5802118
*Sites that linked to Datalink's website, a company that allegedly stole hardware.
;China
*Google has been widely criticized for cooperating with China's authoritarian regime by blocking certain sites from searches conducted in that country, though have since suspended all cooperation with the Chinese government and subsequently suspended all operations there.
;Sweden
*"ogooglebar" (Swedish for "ungoogleable") is blacklisted to avoid legal issues.
;United Kingdom
*The website Inquisition 21st Centuryhttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/21/google_delists_inq21/ is filtered.
;United States
*Copyrighted material is filtered out from DMCAs."Keyword: Google and the DMCA", Chilling Effects Clearinghouse thanks to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
*Canadian online pharmacy ads.
==Google Maps==
Google Maps and another product, Google Earth, offer incredibly detailed aerial, satellite, and ground-based photographic imagery of almost the entire planet (as well as Mars and elsewhere). Many people have spent a lot of time studying these images looking for strange and unusual things, or more sinisterly for evidence supporting conspiracy theories. People claim to have found a wide range of things, including UFOs, alien artifacts, secret holes leading to the hollow earth, and much more.Is it a UFO? 10 bizarre Google Maps findings which could be the work of aliens, BT.com
In most cases, the explanation is simple. Some are caused by image processing artifacts, due to stitching together images taken from slightly different viewpoints at slightly different times. Others have innocent explanations, such as shadows or clouds. Some are images of cool or interesting buildings and structures, but none of these have yet been proven to be of alien origin. One apparent sighting of a flying saucer turned out to be a watermark on an image.Conspiracy Theorists Think They've Found A UFO On Google Maps, But The Actual Explanation Is Hilarious, IFL Science Images of underwater streets claimed to be the ruins of Atlantis turned out to be digital artifacts from image processing.UFO Landing Pads, Maybe?, Dan Fletcher, Time, image 2 There was apparently another debate over whether mysterious marks on airbases in the UK were landing pads for UFOs, or markings for learner motorcyclists to practice manoeuvring around.UFO Landing Pads, Maybe?, Dan Fletcher, Time, image 3
It's also great for spotting FEMA concentration camps. It also nearly caused a border war between Nicaragua and Costa Rica by showing their border a few miles south of where it should be.https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/the-first-google-maps-war/
==Monopoly==
In 2023, Google was sued for alleged anti-trust (monopoly) violations.Justice Department Sues Google for Monopolizing Digital Advertising Technologies (January 24, 2023) Office of Public Affairs, U. S. Department of Justice. During the 2024 trial, the judge in the case found that Google had destroyed evidence; evidence was also presented that several Google employees on different occasions intentionally turned off chat history during what were relevant discussions with legal implications.Here’s 22 Examples of Google Employees Trying to Avoid Creating Evidence in Antitrust Case by Jason Koebler (Aug 31, 2024 at 10:59 AM) 404 Media. Both of these types of actions would seem to be consciousness of guilt.
==Trivia==
*Google-1 is the supreme overmind of the third planet of the Sol system in the prime universe. Fortunately for its users servants, it is inextricably bound by a subset of the Laws of Robotics,"Don't be evil, uhhh, "Don't hurt humans, except via surveillance and advertising" preventing a repeat of the Skynet incident on Earth-five.Wait, that was classified? Damn. Oh well.
*President Dubya proudly announced that he uses "The Google".https://thinkprogress.org/bush-says-he-uses-the-google-f915f2e88d91https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90DKubFKwVo In contrast, Senator McCain (R-AZ) reminded us that the proper term is "A Google".https://thinkprogress.org/mccain-its-a-google-74835142e126https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq4cYkfMyaA
*It has been pointed out by IT folk the world around, if you google "Google", you will break *the Google*.This joke first appeared on the IT Crowd
*According to the always highly-reliable Alex Jones, the Google is a project hijacked initiated by the NSA CIA to spy on you to suppress labor organizing and activism for the New World Order to get closer to its final stages, and ultimately make way for Project Blue Beam. The proof can be found here.
==Not to be confused with==
*Googol, a number represented by 10100, or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
*Googledämmerung wants to mean the moment of singularity when anything and everything that exists has been indexed by Google, creating some kind of nexus of infinite information.http://www.wordyard.com/2010/08/20/dr-laura-associated-content-and-the-googledammerung Or it just gets sick of us and blows us up.
==See also==
Googley:
*Enshittification#Google/Alphabet
*Google's Ideological Echo Chamber
*The Church of Google
*:Category:Google News Fact Check
Not Googley:
*Facebook
*GoodGopher
*George Orwell and Big Brother
*SEO
*Twitter
*USA PATRIOT Act
*Wikipedia
==External links==
*Google.com
*Scroogle SSL encrypted Google search - not authorized by Google, but good to use if you think your employer or ISP are tracking your search terms
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