Google Viral Infection
What is happening in the last years is something unique, not even thought. The most relevant Internet Search Engine company is not producing or improving its core product, the search engine, but throwing in our laptops, houses and mobile phones something we cannot reject: a suite of searching tools, maps, email client, instant messenger, news reader and whatever.
I am used to be sceptic against tools distributed for free. My grandpa told me once: do not accept free stuff, there’s always a crap inside!
The crap this time is pretty big: that’s a BigC(rap).
The distribution style is exactly the same of a virus. Viral marketing is the basic trick of many of these companies.
They create a product, bomb you with that, distribute it for free, create a dependence in order to keep you from the balls.
Nothing can be for free, of course. A company declaring to make business from automated advertisements is just a liar.
The goal of such a company should be keeping informations about millions of people on its own servers: search statistics, taste in music, habits, favourite books, favorite whatever…
There are just infinite possible actions someone can do with that kind of information.
There are no proclamations nor decrees to rule about privacy when dependence has been created: if the service were switched off and I were an addicted internet user, there will be no privacy I would claim.
The viral infection has began, and cannot see any vaccine till now. Com’on Microsoft!
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- 09.04.08 / 9am
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