The word "Google" has become a verb which is usually intended to be
synonymous with an internet web-search.

I never Google, and here is why.


1. Google often doesn't work
2. Google takes advantage of you.
3. Google bogs-down your system

Here are the details:
1. Doesn't work -  I own several domain-names which I use for my various
projects and have also set up sites for friends. These domain-names are
hosted at two major US hosting companies.  Yet one can go to Google's
web site and type the complete URL for my web sites and Google will not
find them, not even on the 3rd or 4th page.
Google is out there for one reason alone, and that is to make money for
Google. So it seems that if a web-site is non-commercial and gives no
indication of being connected to a money-making enterprise, Google just
ignores it.  The Yahoo and Bing search-engines find all of my
web-sites ... no problem.

2. Google takes advantage of us -  Google sifts through our emails and
web sites and sells information to who-knows-whom.  All a guy has to do
is notice the banner-ads that start popping up after doing a
Google-search and one soon gets an idea of how Google makes their
billions.  One can minimize this invasion of privacy to some degree by
doing the following.

a. After a day of browsing, erase your browsing history and cookies. It
is good to keep your computer cookies from the days when one first set
up their system because that is where some setup info is stored. But
deleting the current day's cookies seems to me to be a help in
eliminating trash on my computer screen.

b. If you feel you must use Google, use a back-door into the Google
search-engine... I use StartPage.com, which claims to give a browser
complete privacy.
I try to use this site anytime my privacy feels threatened, like
searching for medical information, financial information, or I am
looking for instructions on building my own moonshine-still.  I also use
http://mapper.acme.com/ for quick private access to Google maps.

c. I have a big bunch of  personal email addresses, each which I use for
different purposes and I then automatically forward to one of my major
email accounts. If some questionable web-site demands that I give them
an email address I just give them one of my throw-away addresses. If it
turns out that I start getting spam or other crap on the throw-away
email address, I just delete it.  It is nice to have one's own domain
name and hosted web-site, it allows a guy to create his own email
accounts for himself and all his friends for this purpose (cost is about
$100/year, which can be split up between dozens of people if you want
to)

3. Google bogs down system -  Load ad-blocking software to your system.
And, if you go often to certain web sites, see if you can determine
direct links to the information you want to see, therebye skipping all
the Google-related junk that fills you screen.  For example, I have
desktop-links to the following weather-radar images so I can check
almost instantly on approaching storm-systems here in the North.

http://sirocco.accuweather.com/nx_mosaic_640x480_public/sir/inmasirnc.gif
http://sirocco.accuweather.com/nx_mosaic_640x480_public/sir/inmasirus_.gif
http://sirocco.accuweather.com/sat_mosaic_640x480_public/ei/isaenc.gif

Does all this effort guarantee that you will not be hastled by internet
pests? Well NO, but it helps

Just last night I was contacted by a guy claiming to be with Microsoft
Tech Support. He claimed that my Windows computer was sending out bad
information. However, since my office has been Linux-only for many years
I was able to tell the PITA where he would be spending Eternity of he
didn't mend his ways.

Also, little while ago I received an email claiming to originate from
the UN. They had $6+ million to be deposited in my acccount; they just
needed my account information. :)

RBerglund

Yes that guy telling me my MS computer is broken is in India :)
Once a year I get a call from him :-) I have no Windows computers connected
to the Internet.

The other bad think with google android is it is free to tablet and
cell phone makers. Unless you allow google to know where you are google android
will not allow access to the GPS receiver.

Paul Lamar

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