Search & destroy : why you can't trust Google Inc. / Scott Cleland with Ira Brodsky.

9780980038323
0980038324

St. Louis, Mo. : Telescope Books, c2011.

English

247, [71] p. ; 24 cm.

HD9696.8.U64 G663 2011

338.7/61025042 C589s

This is the other side of the Google story, the unauthorized book that Google does not want you to read. In it, the author, a Google expert shows that the world's most powerful company is not who it pretends to be. Google pretends to be a harmless lamb, but chose a full size model of a Tyrannosaurus Rex as its mascot. Beware the T Rex in sheep's clothing. Google has acquired far more information, both public and private, and has invented more ways to use it, than anyone in history. Information is power, and in Google's case, it is the power to influence and control virtually everything the Internet touches. Google's power is largely unchecked, unaccountable, and grossly underestimated. Google is the Internet's lone superpower, the new master of the digital information universe. And Google's power depends almost entirely on the blind trust it has gained through masterful duplicity. Google routinely says one thing and does another. The author proves the world's number one brand untrustworthy. He exposes the unethical company hiding behind a "don't be evil" slogan. He uncovers Google's hidden political agenda. And he reveals how Google's famed mission to organize the world's information is destructive and wrong. He critically examines where Google is leading us, explain why we do not want to go there, and proposes solutions. Google's centralization of power over the world's information is corrupting both Google and the Internet, a natural result of unchecked power. Google is evolving from an information servant to master, from working for users, to making users work for the Internet behemoth. This book demonstrates that Google's goal is to change the world by influencing and controlling information access. Ultimately, Google's immense unchecked power is destructive precisely because Google is so political, unethical and untrustworthy. Learn how Google's pervasive tracking and profiling destroys privacy and individualism; Discover how Google Inc. uses its "Don't be evil" slogan to mask unethical business practices; Learn how Google's market dominance and free products threaten competition, innovation, job creation, and economic growth; Discover how Google's hidden political agenda threatens individual freedom, democracy, and national sovereignty; Understand the ramifications of Google imposing its radical values and ideology on the world.
"Learn how Google's pervasive tracking and profiling destroys privacy and individualism. Discover how Google Inc. uses its 'Don't be evil' slogan to mask unethical business practices. Learn how Google's market dominance and free products threaten competition, innovation, job creation, and economic growth. Discover how Google's hidden political agenda threatens individual freedom, democracy, and national sovereignty. Understand the ramifications of Google imposing its radical values and ideology on the world."--Jacket.

"Learn how Google's pervasive tracking and profiling destroys privacy and individualism. Discover how Google Inc. uses its 'Don't be evil' slogan to mask unethical business practices. Learn how Google's market dominance and free products threaten competition, innovation, job creation, and economic growth. Discover how Google's hidden political agenda threatens individual freedom, democracy, and national sovereignty. Understand the ramifications of Google imposing its radical values and ideology on the world."--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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