The Internet and Money

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Google promoting spyware

About an year ago Google and Dell announced a partnership to include the Google Toolbar on new Dell computers. At the same time, Google was trying to convince the Department of Justice that changing the default search engine in the (then) new IE7 was too difficult. Now this meant that each time a Dell user used the Internet their details will be sent to Google. Now if the poor guy made a typing error that meant money for Google and Dell, what they do is simple they display a page with ads all over.

The above picture shows the screen that is shown to a user, when a typo is detected. A simple look at it will show you that on a 800 * 600 resolution screen you see no results but only ads. Now the picture below show the results of a study on "where people look at most on a Google results page". The redder the area, more the attention it gets.

Now taking that into consideration Google is creating a scenario where people are not using their service at their own will because the toolbar is installed by default and even if you uninsulated the tool bar the Browser Address Error Re-director remains providing this service and a normal computer user will find it hard to remove. Thus it comes to point that this "tool" provided by dell and Google can be termed a spy ware because :-

  1. Users dint ask for it.
  2. Removing the toolbar which is what people identify the results with most does not stop this.
  3. The results are showing mostly ads in the visible area.

So we users must rise to the occasion and realise that Google is not any more about not being evil. This act of Google to display ads by force can only be termed evil. Is Google loosing its identity and becoming a solely money oriented business with no values what so ever ? If not they would have shown the proper results or suggested the correct spelling first rather than ads. The margins in hardware industry is very low and thus Dell or any other hardware company would want ways to bring in continuous revenue and forcing the users to see ads would be one but Google partnering the act of evil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Labels:

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]

<< Home