Comment Re:Good idea but... (Score 1) 332
If it is so easy to abuse, why hasn't anyone been able to abuse it yet? It's been three weeks and no one has succeeded yet. (theres more to that of course)
Google is the only entity on the net not to have their encoded/encrypted urls cracked open. AOL, Goto, and Altavista's various encoding schemes have all been laid wide open.
Only Googles encoding scheme in the ie toolbar has not been hacked. If you'll look at the voting system, you'll find a similar system.
>but I think you under-rate the devious
>abilities of bored corporate minions
I think you underate the devious abilities of the corporate monster that Google has become. The vulture crowd did not bestow $20mil (that we know of) on Google for being nice guys.
Take a long look at this scheme of Googles. Many don't think it has anything to do with rating websites Upware, it's about weeding out the small ones that they can't profit from.
>I tend to trust Google too
Why?
- They use 1.6 billion pages of other people content from their site to do a branding job on themselves without prior consent.
- They use everyones graphics with out prior consent.
- They run carefuly crafted "grass roots" marketing campaigns that has even sucked in the likes of even /. in to supporting them (just a major corporation). So what - they use Linux.
- The effect of their algo is to promote corporate sites that will have money for advertising.
- They've never once acknowledged, justified, or admitted that the "cache" is may be legally dubious.
So what's to trust? As far as I can see, they are just another corporation out to make a buck on the internet at the small guys expense.
Google is the only entity on the net not to have their encoded/encrypted urls cracked open. AOL, Goto, and Altavista's various encoding schemes have all been laid wide open.
Only Googles encoding scheme in the ie toolbar has not been hacked. If you'll look at the voting system, you'll find a similar system.
>but I think you under-rate the devious
>abilities of bored corporate minions
I think you underate the devious abilities of the corporate monster that Google has become. The vulture crowd did not bestow $20mil (that we know of) on Google for being nice guys.
Take a long look at this scheme of Googles. Many don't think it has anything to do with rating websites Upware, it's about weeding out the small ones that they can't profit from.
>I tend to trust Google too
Why?
- They use 1.6 billion pages of other people content from their site to do a branding job on themselves without prior consent.
- They use everyones graphics with out prior consent.
- They run carefuly crafted "grass roots" marketing campaigns that has even sucked in the likes of even
- The effect of their algo is to promote corporate sites that will have money for advertising.
- They've never once acknowledged, justified, or admitted that the "cache" is may be legally dubious.
So what's to trust? As far as I can see, they are just another corporation out to make a buck on the internet at the small guys expense.
