| said by biggbrother:I think your missing the point. No one is saying the can't censor. The point is that many people would stop using Google if it were discovered that they were systematically censoring results because of a certain reason. The can censor all they want. I could just choose not to use them if they did. Thank you, exactly. It's basically responsible full-disclosure, and to do otherwise is inherently deceptive to their "customers". The practical question is, though, how do you disclose censorship, if you are supposed to censor the existance of something? Catch-22.
PS. I miss HotBot. That was a pretty decent search engine, and the first major one (IIRC) to use a distributed server "cluster" for searches. DEC's AltaVista service was all running on *one* 64-bit Alpha-based machine, intended to serve as a marketing tool for their (then-new) 64-bit server systems. (There were multiple single servers though, to handle queries from different global geographic regions. The search index was replicated between them though, not distributed/shared, IIRC.) |
