Subscribe Feed (RSS)Flying Tips, Cool Online Trends, and Google Gets Scary! Are We In a Brave New World?
May 23rd, 2007 by Joshua Dorkin | Filed under Blogging, Commentary, Entrepreneurship, Google, SEO.- I’d like to thanks CNN for sharing with me the incredible AvoidDelays, which is brought to all of us from our nation’s air controllers. This site is chock full of awesome data about flying in the US, including airports to avoid, worst time to fly to certain cities, and much more. If you travel at all, this site is a must for your bookmarks!
- Thanks to ComputerWorld, I learned that Google recently launched Google Trends, an improved version of their previous Zeitgeist. Googe Trends has an awesome feature that allows you to search the 100 fastest rising search terms in the US, which should come in very handy for those bloggers and others who target popular keywords. You can also look at cool trend & historical charts of different terms, something that is pretty fun to fool around with.
On the other hand, in a more ominous story, apparently, Google doesn’t think it has invaded our personal lives enough, and wants to delve deeper. In a story I learned about from Drudge, the Financial Times interviewed the Google guys and they revealed their EXTREMELY FRIGHTENING plan to take over the world:
- Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, said gathering more personal data was a key way for Google to expand and the company believes that is the logical extension of its stated mission to organise the world’s information.
Asked how Google might look in five years’ time, Mr Schmidt said: “We are very early in the total information we have within Google. The algorithms will get better and we will get better at personalisation.
“The goal is to enable Google users to be able to ask the question such as ‘What shall I do tomorrow?’ and ‘What job shall I take?’ ”
I’m not sure about the rest of you, but I’m absolutely more afraid of Google then I am the US government under the Bush/Cheney regime. If the government knew as much about everyone as Google did, we’d all be up in arms! I already discussed how they use private data to get better results from Google Blogsearch in the past, and this is just another step towards a complete invasion of all of our privacy. Sadly, people are embracing their efforts instead of fighting them.
Do you really want any one company to know that much about you? It is indeed a Brave New World and we don’t even realize it!
Josh,
I just found your site through a link on Blog-Op and I have greatly enjoyed it. I’ll be adding you to my feeds and will be sure to be back and will probably be throwing you some link love in the future
Scott
Scott - I’m glad you found the site and hope I can continue to write good articles to keep you coming back. I look forward to your link love!
Good luck with your site…but I feel like Google’s getting too over my shoulder, and I’ll be looking for another “checkout” service soon:
http://thenewsroom.com/details/340784/?c_id=jms
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