From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E30AO-0003pm-0A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 23:39:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7ANbYrq007178; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 23:37:34 GMT Received: from tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.74]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7ANXPgr008517 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 23:33:25 GMT Received: from sympatico.ca ([70.49.182.247]) by tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with SMTP id <20050810233409.DKCY26550.tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net@sympatico.ca> for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:34:09 -0400 Received: by sympatico.ca (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:34:09 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:34:09 -0400 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla & Google behind the scenes payola Message-ID: <20050810233409.GA7204@sympatico.ca> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20050809195210.GA15338@may.frognet.net> <20050809210534.GZ792@quillandmouse.com> <42FA2881.4050603@gonoph.net> <42FA2EB6.2030103@planet.nl> <558b73fb050810101740138f9e@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <558b73fb050810101740138f9e@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: c5dd0b32-9b8d-4ad5-999a-17da77bb6641 X-Archives-Hash: 245f5138e5222f83c3aac3fd8b3e956f 050810 Michael Crute wrote: > the guy who wrote that silly little article is a nutcase > that is waging some weird holy war against google. His other sites are: > http://www.google-watch.org/ > http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com/ > So check those out first and that will squash what little credibility > that article started out with. This guy is really of his rocker. No more than Groklaw, I'ld say, in fact probably somewhat less. He has a link to an interesting mathematical analysis of Google counts : http://aixtal.blogspot.com/2005/01/web-googles-counts-faked.html Just for the more general record, I see nothing wrong with Firefox making some money out of its default search engine: as others have pointed out, it's easy to change to another. There's nothing wrong with earning an honest loonie (buck, quid etc): it's when you bully or deceive that real questions arise. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : purslow@chass.utoronto.ca ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list