Drew Wittig
Assignment #2

Google as Big Brother

This article makes it very clear that Google is a mega-search engine site, that is overwhelmingly huge. It's main competitor Yahoo has recently gotten offers from Microsoft and Google.
Google is considered the top dog, receiving 75% of all searchs. The article is basically saying that we as internet users should be wary about Google's pull. The unique ID number called Cookies, will expire in 2038. This ID number saves as much information as it can, meaning that everything you have searched for is saved. This means that Google knows what you are searching for! There are no laws or policies that keeps this information safe. Why does Google do this? It is clearly because they are trying to establish a Big Brother mentality to the internet users. Googles Cache copy appears to be illegal...It saves and stores automatically, not giving the user a choice. Google is a company that is to be feared. Any company that controlls a monopoly to the public is something to be very wary of. They have the power and they have the control to do almost anything they want to. Controlling 75% of external referrals makes Webmasters have to go with approval from Google. All in all it is very alarming to know this information, It makes me think in the soon future the Internet will experience some sort of coup, or complete breakdown.