Comments | umang: G Rant

umang

G Rant

Nov 17, 2006 00:26

What is wrong with Google ( Read more... )

Comments 11

mekin November 17 2006, 08:56:08 UTC

Do no evil :)

well they are exposing users to other services - network integration -
While all you said is perfectly logical. It jars with their world domination plans wherein they own you :)

umang November 17 2006, 09:02:05 UTC

Hehe.. I predict an anti-trust case soon!

manubhardwaj November 18 2006, 04:15:43 UTC

The anti-trust case is called "YouTube". If you haven't read enough about YouTube being a bomb waiting to explode, read this article dated today.

umang November 18 2006, 19:15:28 UTC

YouTube is no anti-trust.
It's plain old copyright violation which they knew would be in the offing while taking on the mess. So I'm sure they have a good plan for it already.

Disable displaying your email-id anoopjm November 17 2006, 08:56:55 UTC

I think you can display the email id to 'myself'. i.e. primary email: @gmail.com (edit) ... besides that set it to 'myself' or 'friends' rather than to everyone and see if you have any luck. I am assuming that you tried to disable the Orkut and GTalk integration and it did not seem to work right ?

Re: Disable displaying your email-id umang November 17 2006, 09:05:07 UTC

Yeah.. Orkut-GTalk integration and even Gmail-GTalk integration where people you frequently email get added to your IM friends' list.

They need to realize that any synchronous form of messaging is way more personal than asynchronous messaging.

manubhardwaj November 17 2006, 12:05:50 UTC

Just how difficult is it to guess your/my prefixes to @gmail.com anyway? And it is disabled by default in my case.

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umang November 19 2006, 02:21:34 UTC

No one is (yes, despite all the fast links to chat with me or call me thanks to Google), but I just don't like what they've done.

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umang November 19 2006, 02:19:42 UTC

Hmmm... let me see... can't remember the last time I was working. ;-)