[dba-Tech] Redirect to GMail

Josh McFarlane wrote:

/>People sell ways to increase your page-rank based on conforming to
 >google's searching standards and through use of search tools such as
 >meta tags (things you could easily learn yourself but eh, people are
 >lazy.) Google itself does not sell these ways.
/
Follow the money. Some of that cash goes back to Google, doesn't it?

/>Do you think that none of the other companies on the internet do this?/

/>Everywhere you visit logs your associations and other things to tailor
 >for the DB. Advertisers don't mine that DB, Google lets advertisers
 >pick Keywords for their adds to show up on.
/
The question concerned email, not surfing. I'd use such a company for 
email only in an emergency & preferably not at all.

/>You don't think that Rogers wouldn't be forced to also show email
 >records from the server if asked by a court of law? That's a little 
odd...
 >I thought everyone had to follow the legal system. Guess Google's
 >one of those bad guys that obeys the law. Can't let the man get us. /

That misses the pont entirely. Trust of due process in western 
democracies is arguably rational. But Google operates worldwide. Do you 
trust due process in China, Nigeria, Iran?

<unapt rhetoric snipped>

PB


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