I’m searching for changes from Google.(Features)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) March 24, 2009 Byline: John McKie IT’S hard to remember how we ever managed to check facts before Google. So hard that I just logged on to Google to find out what we did. go to site google iphone app
Apparently, we used books.
Google is as much a part of modern life as over-the-top collective displays of grief, celebrity worship and speed cameras.
But it’s a lot more useful.
So now we have Google, Google Images, Google Video (especially once they bought YouTube) and Google Maps.
Google Maps is clearly an invaluable resource. Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, for instance, was last seen typing “opposition goal” into his laptop. (Computer says no.) Sadly, however, the folk behind Google have become drunk on power.
It has unveiled a Google Street View with addresses all over the UK in 25 British cities, including Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen.
This was OK when the site was showing panoramic views of the Sydney Opera House and the Coliseum in Rome.
But not when it’s showing discarded Twix wrappers outside my house.
Not when it shows blokes caught short in public, exiting Soho sex shops or smoking a fag outside “No Smoking” signs.
Not at a time when a UK Government with its ID card plans, stealth taxes and hidden cameras has close to zero regard for our civil liberties.
Good to see Google is blocking some of the views after public complaints. Tough to figure who benefits from this new Street View system other than Google.
iPhone owners too drunk to recall what their front doors look like that is, perhaps.
Or stalkers.
Any other browsers – not just Old Firm players whose houses have just been attacked – should be concerned about the power companies like Google and Facebook currently have. Google was started by two student dropouts in a Californian garage, and has gone a long way from that underground vibe. website google iphone app
Google Street View leaves a sour taste, as do the tiny YouTube royalty fees for musicians.
Next time your favourite band charges pounds 30, or even pounds 100, for a concert ticket, or you complain that record companies only sign groups made on telly talent shows, remember this may be part of the reason.
Over at Facebook, things aren’t much better after the worst makeover since Madonna bought her pink leotard.
Web giants, such as Google and Facebook, have to start listening to their customers.
That’s if they don’t want to end up as crazes in history which you look up on another search engine.
Y es que el astro boricua fue nominado hoy a un premio de la Drama League, la asociación teatral más antigua de Estados Unidos que cada año otorga premios a lo más logrado en las artes escénicas, basado en la selección de sus cientos de asociados y del voto del público que asiste a las producciones que se presentan en Broadway y off Broadway.
