Google, again

Posted on | October 27, 2010 | No Comments

I must say: whoever’s in charge of communciations at Google, they’re doing a good job. Having presented my thoughts on Eric Schmidt’s public speaking skills a while back, I now had the chance to see Arnauld Mitre of Google France. Asked about transparency issues surrounding Google Search’s algorithm, he said that they’re handling it the way they are because they’re “user-directed”: being more transparent would leave the user unprotected vis-à-vis business interests. In other words: they’re doing it for us.

That’s obviously a somewhat shaky anwer but an elegant one nonetheless. Now have a government tell this to their citizens and no one would believe them..

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