http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4349 Independent Tech News and Product Reviews from former VP and head of CNET.com and Longtime Computer Shopper Columnist, Alice Hill author of the popular "Hard Edge" column. Originally named AliceandBill.com. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:45:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4349#comment-168791 Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:40:33 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4349#comment-168791 I remember when google started as a search engine, everyone liked them... Since expanding into a full fledged advertising agency, many people now hate them! I remember when google started as a search engine, everyone liked them… Since expanding into a full fledged advertising agency, many people now hate them!

]]> http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4349#comment-167610 Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:59:04 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/4349#comment-167610 This is similar to the attitude Google takes towards usenet abuse from people who post via Google Groups. IME, Google almost always ignores usenet abuse complaints unless they are about extremely unlawful activity. New terms have come into being like "Googlespam" and "Googletroll" because those problems are so prevalent. As a result, I use NFilter to completely block all posts from Google Groups when reading a newsgroup. In the old days, it was "AOLosers", now it's "Googlers". This is similar to the attitude Google takes towards usenet abuse from people who post via Google Groups. IME, Google almost always ignores usenet abuse complaints unless they are about extremely unlawful activity. New terms have come into being like “Googlespam” and “Googletroll” because those problems are so prevalent. As a result, I use NFilter to completely block all posts from Google Groups when reading a newsgroup. In the old days, it was “AOLosers”, now it’s “Googlers”.

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