Comments on: Why do people no longer trust Google? http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2008/12/16/why-do-people-no-longer-trust-google/ Technology news Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:15:02 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Danny Mendez http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2008/12/16/why-do-people-no-longer-trust-google/comment-page-1/#comment-152694 Danny Mendez Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:35:12 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/?p=10214#comment-152694 Google will be the first company to become president of the US. Google will be the first company to become president of the US.

]]> By: Simon http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2008/12/16/why-do-people-no-longer-trust-google/comment-page-1/#comment-152541 Simon Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:35:21 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/?p=10214#comment-152541 I'm not sure why it's "bizarre" that Apple made it into the top 20; the top 20 is nothing but huge companies raking in profits. Apple does a good job of balancing customer service with high-quality products, and even in the face of bugs and outages and what-not it knows how to manage PR so that people's trust remains unshaken. Microsoft could learn a thing or two about that. Actually, so could Google: I don't trust Google because of its insidious data tracking and profiling. I installed Chrome for a day, read the EULA, and then uninstalled it, noting in my "why did you uninstall" e-mail that the proprietary claims by Google on my Web usage through the browser were mind-numbingly vast. At that moment, I realized Google was evil, and I vowed never to use a Google product (other than google.com itself, but I utilize various browser add-ons to minimize Google's ability to track me, though obviously they can still do it to some extent). A few days after Chrome was released they updated their EULA, but I got the message all the same. Google is evil; the only reason most people don't think so already is that they don't know what all Google is doing with their Web browsing data and personal information. Every year as awareness of these things grows, Google's trustworthiness will decline more and more. I’m not sure why it’s “bizarre” that Apple made it into the top 20; the top 20 is nothing but huge companies raking in profits. Apple does a good job of balancing customer service with high-quality products, and even in the face of bugs and outages and what-not it knows how to manage PR so that people’s trust remains unshaken. Microsoft could learn a thing or two about that.

Actually, so could Google: I don’t trust Google because of its insidious data tracking and profiling. I installed Chrome for a day, read the EULA, and then uninstalled it, noting in my “why did you uninstall” e-mail that the proprietary claims by Google on my Web usage through the browser were mind-numbingly vast. At that moment, I realized Google was evil, and I vowed never to use a Google product (other than google.com itself, but I utilize various browser add-ons to minimize Google’s ability to track me, though obviously they can still do it to some extent). A few days after Chrome was released they updated their EULA, but I got the message all the same.

Google is evil; the only reason most people don’t think so already is that they don’t know what all Google is doing with their Web browsing data and personal information. Every year as awareness of these things grows, Google’s trustworthiness will decline more and more.

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