mostly research stuff
so it would appear that sergio and barry are in fact “boys gone wild” when it comes to separating people from money and information…i’m talking about elgoog base, this ebay-cum-craigslist-plus-amazon type of platform that they’re building to capture mo’ info…and though the main site talks a lot about recipes (oh, thanks, couldn’t find those online for free), reference articles (again, not enough of ‘em!), personal profiles (excluding their ceo of course) and all of that shit, what really fascinates me is how incredibly hypocritical and blatantly insincere this company’s ‘code of conduct‘ really is…
…i now quote directly from sergio in that playboy interview, “For example, we don’t accept ads for hard liquor, but we accept ads for wine. It’s just a personal preference. We don’t allow gun ads, and the gun lobby got upset about that. We don’t try to put our sense of ethics into the search results, but we do when it comes to advertising…As I said, we believe that “Don’t be evilâ€? is only half of it. There’s a “Be goodâ€? rule also.”
oh, right, right, and elgoog base isn’t advertising? i must be some kind of neanderfuck, confusing product page postings with advertisements like that…sorry.
…so what’s the first thing i did on that elgoog base site? i typed in keywords like ‘porn‘ and ‘liquor‘ and ‘rifle‘ - and voila, i found ‘em all, en masse…
…if you want a really good laugh, check out the elgoog base terms of service, and then look up every single one of the prohibited items (you should look forward to a very high score in this particular research game)…
these two founders, these dissimulators if you will, they are clearly opening up a back door to their policies and will most certainly push the blame outward toward users while citing their role as a mere ‘platform’…and unfortunately, it’s way too easy to see into their backyard right now…oh, and btw: when i clicked on the “report bad item” link (appears next to everything), i noticed only a radio button option to tag ‘adult content’ - but nothing for guns and booze….
what’s next? wal-mart actually selling sex-toys instead of cleverly packaged ‘vibrating massagers’?…the same damned walton clan that also loves to prescribe behavior?…hmmm, smell something here? elgoog is just a digital walmart…mark my words, within five years people are gonna be like mad fuckernauts looking to rip up elgoog’s monopoly (’data utility and mobility’) and they’re gonna use the same argument as walmart: for the benefit of consumers, in this case offering a lotta free shit versus just gouging suppliers and labor (but you can just bet that advertisers will get gouged! elgoog has got the ability to do to online advertising what enron did to utilities…just takes a twist of a formula to engineer keyword bid wars and ideal shortages in a world where no outsiders are privy to the actual methodologies, or where such methods are beyond the grasp of participants)
this blog is mostly safe for work, though i sometimes throw around a 'fuck' or two. you'll find a bunch of my articles from CI Magazine, SCIP online, other research pieces and some other crap. enjoy. there's lost of content here related to getting information about, around, from and through people and organizations...
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