Is it just me, or does the Google Chrome logo look like a Simon from the 1970s?
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The imagination wanders a bit with the similarities. Imagine everyone just doing what Simon says.
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What if Google turned from "Do no harm" to "Do as we say…"? Wouldn't that be a bit scary? I mean they're already processing almost everyone's emails. And they certainly know what each of us likes to look at on the web.
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Imagine if Google just started telling us what it wanted to tell us in order to get us to do what it wanted us to do. We all rely on it for tons of stuff, some of us without even realizing it.
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When teaching people how to make websites in the classroom, I was amazed that I could tell people something like "go to http://www.cliffdweller.com" and they would type exactly that into the Google search bar and then click on the resulting search page, adding an extra step to the simple process all the while alerting Google to their presence. Imagine so many people giving so much control of their web-life to Google.
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Google Analytics is on most of the websites you go to. It enables web people to track who's coming to their site (this site included). You are giving information to Google without even realizing it.
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How far are we willing to go when it comes to big faceless corporations knowing so many details about our lives? Google your name. Google your name and address. Google your name and place of employment. See what's out there.
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Paranoid? Decide for yourself.
