Google bitching
Here in London, there will be big celebrations this year for the Chinese New Year on Saturday. Perhaps it’s a little early to review our predictions for the Year of the Flaming Dog, but one of them seems to be coming true with a vengence. As I recall, it was prediction number 3 - that people will bitch more and more about Google. They are certainly bitching about it now, and with some justification for the company whose declared aim is to “do no evil.”
Still, I would argue that Google’s capitulation in China has to be weighed against its stand against washington to protect its users data. On the evil front, that means Google is neutral for 2006 by my reckoning - but that won’t stop the bitching.
