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We've all heard about the US wanting their search results but will it all result to in the end? Google is loved by all except the few with the political or financial power.

I just found this.
Pardon me but i havnt seen much on it but the article makes it look like there are other ISP's doing the same thing.

Does anyone think the goverment and the internet tycoons are working together to kill google? I dont think that the isp aqusations will hold up that well in court but the timing is strange.

I think google is going to be sufficated by all these power players eventually. Not that the site will go down... but they will be forced to give in. I dont think that another site could take its place if the goverment wins their lawsuit, because theyd beat down anyone who tried to stand up to them... at least not as big as google is. If you knew that the NSA was scanning your searches for "how to make a bomb" wouldnt you use a proxy? Make guns illegal and only criminals will have guns... but not to that extreme.

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If google has to give in, by court order, and it doesn't accidentally burn all the records, it would be the time to throw a huge online protest against the crap that the internet powers have in place..

On the moving server front, it would probably be expensive, and I suspect the creators want the servers close to hand and in a secure country.

as soon as google falls i will leave but i dont think most people care enough to protest it

anyone read brave new world

Not everyone will give a damn at all. Some will even rejoice.

But I think that would be the straw that breaks the camel's back, and those frequenting technology, internet and other such forums or sites, would be more than happy to set up some online 'event' to protest against the 'violation of rights' as Google has become such an integral part of the internet.

There will be people like you ane me leaving but i dont think people generaly care.

Depends on how you use the internet.

Google is god in some communities.

i think i would be distraught if google was gone, im like the typical googler.
i use it for everything, im so bad if someone asks me how to spell something ill go to google and spell what ever it is how i think its spelt and it comes up with that little bit at the top saying "did you mean BLAH" and yea
good little tool i reckon,
life as i know it would be the same.

Yea i heard many bad stories about google in last few moths,as they steal user datas,they monitor our search words & they have some bad connection with backhat hacking groups.

U know that google ads in ur gmail inbox can steal your mail infos..Google adsense detect ur mail content & place corresponding ads in your inbox,so why don't they steal it?
& that desktop search shit open a backdoor for google,so they can store anything they want in ur pc.
So how they give their system access to FBI or any gov agency?
b/w am still a regular googler

I think that google has quite a bit of backing. The open source commmunity is pretty supportive (though this of course accounts for little in the legal environs). But I generally feel like google is a well meaning company (especially considering its size) and am kind of the mindset that even if google did crumble, another company would be likely to rise that embodies the same spirit as google and possibly learn from some of their mistakes and be even better. (Not that I would like to see google crumble of course... haha)

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same with me i dont think alot care for me i dont use "Google" never really have so im sure i wouldnt care.

i don't think life will be the same without google. i'm quite dependent on it for alot of stuff.. and i use it almost daily.

but of course it's hard to ignore the rumours (or not) going round about how our privacy is being constantly invaded by the google guys. i guess being connected to the internet (for the average users) has already compromised that privilege. we could however limit the extent by not using gmail or the search engine for EXTREMELY PERSONAL & CONFIDENTIAL STUFF.

sarius wrote:i don't think life will be the same without google. i'm quite dependent on it for alot of stuff.. and i use it almost daily.

but of course it's hard to ignore the rumours (or not) going round about how our privacy is being constantly invaded by the google guys. i guess being connected to the internet (for the average users) has already compromised that privilege. we could however limit the extent by not using gmail or the search engine for EXTREMELY PERSONAL & CONFIDENTIAL STUFF.

totally agree with u...we all depeneds google alot,comapare to other sh*t services like yahoo/MSN google is far better....so we cant ignore them but we can limit/restrict our usage.
In service quality wise google is the No:1 & always remains there

Google can and probably does monitor the usage, but if they're not going to turn the records over, then it doesn't really matter - and if they did turn the records over, so what? If you don't look for info on how to make a bomb, who cares if bush knows you searched for porn last week.

On the email front, I don't see the big deal of the ads searching for keywords and then displaying ads. I wouldn't even care if someone other than a bot actually read my emails as it wouldn't make a difference - someone would know what my friends think of their boss, wehey.

If you don't use the internet for illegal purposes, you might as well hand over your own search and email records to everyone. And I have an inkling that msn and yahoo monitor their usage slightly more..

I don't know alot of the technical details of whats going to happen to Google, but last night on the radio I heard something about the shares of Google going up something like 2 percent I think in light of what the CEO said about the future of Google, saying it's not a grim future, but growth being part of it. Like I said I don't know alot, and I was only listening to it half-way.

Well, one of the issues is the potential for your private information to end up in searches.

You know, you're supposed to Google your name/address every few months to make sure no one is wtfpwning you.

And some people are noobs and take that to the next level and search for their socialsecurity numbers or credit card numbers...