From 5bbb05f1d6c8114dba12b6e99eac01e863aaeb7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bob Mottram Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 15:24:20 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update google --- entries/google.txt | 22 +++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/entries/google.txt b/entries/google.txt index 46db2a1..282bc10 100644 --- a/entries/google.txt +++ b/entries/google.txt @@ -1,10 +1,18 @@ google -v. [common] To search the Web using the Google search engine, -http://www.google.com. Google is highly esteemed among hackers for its -significance ranking system, which is so uncannily effective that many -hackers consider it to have rendered other search engines effectively -irrelevant. The name google has additional flavor for hackers because most -know that it was copied from a mathematical term for ten to the 100th power, -famously first uttered as googol by a mathematician's nine-year-old nephew. +Originally a web search company. Megacorporation with a surveillance +capitalist business model. Provides material support for drone wars +and internet censorship in China. Approves of gentrification. +Google are the new evil empire, replacing Microsoft as the number +one source of concentrated evil within corporate computing. +Hackers generally avoid Google products, particularly due to their +extensive privacy issues and proprietary nature. It's common to +hear hackers describe themselves as being "degoogled" or in the +process if "degoogling" (i.e. removing themselves from +participation in Google systems). + +In its early history in the 2000s Google was loved by hackers, +and even hired some Free Software people. Over time though the +company engaged increasingly in practices which were +antithetical to hacker ethics. \ No newline at end of file