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I've been hearing that google it's buying everything.. so, it's gonna monopolize the internet??? they got youtube, and i don't know what more. But i saw a documentary last night that shows the life of the employees.. and.. it's not bad!!! lol , well... what do you think about this megamonster that just started with 3 PC on a garage?

It's strange that google managed to grow so fast without me having real reasons to avoid it so far. Many other affiliated groups did so. I am aware that google isn' t the holy maiden, but it's still acceptable imho.

Well alsa a day after Microsoft offered to Yahoo 44 billion $ to buy them, from the presscenter of Google said that there is an opportunity to offer more, but it is not sure. So If google buys Yahoo,there is going to be a monopol of the inet with sure. Also Google was choosed for the best working place for 2006 or 2007 I dont really remember.
But as long as they dont go too far, it is okay for me.

I also saw a documentary about it. It was mostly about google storing search stuff of you on their servers for balancing their records and stuff. Some people find it very worrying, but I don't really mind. As long as they offer me good results

Joost wrote:I also saw a documentary about it. It was mostly about google storing search stuff of you on their servers for balancing their records and stuff. Some people find it very worrying, but I don't really mind. As long as they offer me good results

You can always mess with their searches and records anyway if you want to, RefControl and User Agent Spoofer are both handy addons you can add to Firefox. The RefControl one allows you to spoof your referer, so when they go trolling their records, they see someone was surfing the internet with a iPhone and its referer was as an example www.i-dont-have-a-referer.com or go one better and set your user agent as googlebot 2.0

Intreastingly their server comes up as gws (not apache, not IIS.. GWS.. am I alone in thinking what the hell is gws?)