What If Google Was Wrong?
30 06 2006
I notice there is a doco called Google – Behind the Screen on Cutting Edge next week.
I think Google is midly interesting in terms of how it came about and how such a simple search engine became basically the default. What is more interesting is what Google doesn’t do, either by choice or out of practicality. Looking closely at Google raises very real questions about how we treat information, copywrite, censorship and monopolies.
One of Google’s guiding ideas is “don’t be evil”. In practice this proves harder than I would have imagined.
I am not sure how many of these issues are covered in this documentary but I figure it’s worth a look anyway.
It runs for an hour at 8.30pm on Tuesday 4th July on SBS. More information here.
