Say It Ain't So, Google

Flagged for blatantly lying:

'''And the quote by Eric Schmidt: "Internet users shouldn't worry about privacy unless they have something to hide." Ouch. That doesn't sound very straightforward OR user-friendly. Almost sounds intimidating...or maybe...evil?'''

Eric Schmidt never said that. What he said was:

'If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. But if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines, including Google, do retain this information for some time. And [...] we're all subject, in the US, to the Patriot Act, and it is possible that that information could be made available to the authorities.'

Which has a very different meaning. You should be ashamed, Louis Savalli.

Agree - What were they thinking with the news page, it's went from one of my first check general news aggregators to near last check? Their redesigned image search is awesome though!

Flagged whiny blog post.

And how is this news? Google has been trying to be too many things at once and failing in many of them for at least 4 years now. Also it was a very shallow blog post, an itemized list of what the author dislikes about the current status of Google services would do; he didn't care to elaborate any of them anyway.

An ex-colleague of mine, and I imagine many people, misunderstand privacy in the way espoused by Eric Schmidt's comment: "Internet users shouldn't worry about privacy unless they have something to hide."