[quote]Google, the world’s biggest web-search engine, had its German website cut off from the internet Tuesday, apparently after somebody hijacked the rights to its google.de address.German surfers who tried to enter the Google site instead saw a web page hosted on the servers of a tiny German online provider, Goneo.

“The problem was fixed in a short space of time,

(This post was last modified: 24/01/2007 12:59 PM by dasme.)

O_o  Google is getting stuffed in its own googol mess.

Google Negatives

As it has grown, Google has found itself the focus of various controversies related to its business practices and services. For example, Google Book Search's effort to digitize millions of books and make the full text searchable has led to copyright disputes with the Authors Guild. Google's cooperation with the governments of China, and to a lesser extent France and Germany (regarding Holocaust denial) to filter search results in accordance to regional laws and regulations has led to claims of censorship. Google's persistent cookie and other information collection practices have led to concerns over user privacy. A number of governments have raised concerns about the security risks posed by geographic details provided by Google Earth's satellite imaging.[19] Moreover, Google advertisers have filed several lawsuits against the company in 2006, claiming that up to 14-20% of the clicks on the bills were in fact fraudulent or invalid

Yahoo! For the win :P

^^Wow!  Nice find.  Hmm, I'm gonna clear my Google cookies more often :)
Well, I guess all large companies do this sorda stuff - like Sony and their "dodgey" ads.

Sweet, awesome info :P

Microsoft is the biggest ...... (u know what)

google-watch.org

Welcome back Liquid. :)

(This post was last modified: 26/01/2007 07:29 AM by dasme.)

Thank you. Feels good to be back. I was told that my internet connection will receive an upgrade very soon.

NO MORE 56K!!!

I'll probably waste more of my life online when that happens.

Liquid Wrote:NO MORE 56K!!!

O_o