We trust Google because they're good but before they become Bad

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1. • exMixxer

   “To love Google, you have to be a little bit of a monarchist, you have to have faith in the way people traditionally felt about the king,” Tim Wu, a Columbia law professor and a former scholar in residence at Google, told me recently. “One reason they’re good at the moment is they live and die on trust, and as soon as you lose trust in Google, it’s over for them.” Google’s claim on our trust is a fragile thing. After all, it’s hard to be a company whose mission is to give people all the information they want and to insist at the same time on deciding what information they get.

   http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/magazine/30google-t.html?_r=1

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2. • YankeeJim

   You awoke today with one purpose: talk about something generically beneficial to all computer users. This is a good post.

   I truly worry about the fragility of the e-economy and e-national security. It takes very little to bring the house down. You don't even have to bring down the whole house to cause immense damage, as you know.

   I fear magnets.

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3. • eastcoast1978

   I worry about Google and their power. I don't trust them to protect me. Even still I use Google for everything I can.

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4. • onreact.com

   Why not just submit the real source instead of blogspam?
   http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/magazine/30google-t.html?_r=1

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