There is some concern that Google is doing more than running a simple search engine and browser. My entire family has had our blogs and web sites ‘black listed’ for reasons we can not understand. We have seen our sites drop from several hundred hits a day… to virtually nothing at times. We have corresponded with Google and their response has been inadequate at best. I can only wonder what the future holds?
Here is a recent quote in a letter to Committee Chairman Henry Waxman and Ranking Member Joe Barton, the nonpartisan, nonprofit public interest group’s John M. Simpson wrote:
“Based on today’s Washington Post, it appears that Google holds classified U.S. government contracts to supply search and geospatial information to the U.S. government. In addition, White House records show that Google executives have been holding meetings with U.S. national security officials for undisclosed reasons. Finally, it also appears that Google’s widely criticized efforts to collect wireless network data on American citizens were not inadvertent, contrary to the company’s claims.”
“As history has repeatedly shown, alliances between the U.S. intelligence community and giant corporations that collect data on American citizens can be a toxic combination where the U.S. Constitution is concerned,” the letter said.”
For now… we will use BING, YAHOO and anybody else and maybe you should, too.