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UtterlyBoring.com is produced by Jake Ortman (e-mail, resume), a 30-year-old dad, percussionist, freelance Web designer, consultant and jack-of-all-trades computer geek, living in Bend, Oregon. He created this so that his expensive journalism and technology degree isn't getting totally wasted. In addition to editing this site in his free time, he is the IT Director and Ad Designer at both Sunray and Discover Sunriver. He has LinkedIn, MySpace, Facebook profiles if you're trying to stalk him.
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Emerald slams Google for phone number lookupOK, generally, I support most anything that the Emerald publishes, but any time they slam my favorite search engine without doing their homework, then I have to gripe. I just posted a yet-to-be-moderated feedback to their site, that basically says this: This is NOT a Google problem. This data is 1) Publicly available, and 2) Has been available online for years. Google just makes it far easier and intuitive. Do your homework, folks, and don't slam a search engine as something that "violates online privacy" unless you realize that they weren't the first ones to do it. Posted by Jake on 04/28/03 @ 01:38 PM
Posted in Stupid | 2 Comments | Permalink Submit to digg, del.icio.us, reddit, or stumbleupon 2 Commentsgerome said on 05/05/03 @ 04:35 PM:Sorry to disagree with your rant, Jake. The Emerald article is not slamming, but merely reporting what Google can do and printing the opinions of people who are concerned. Your feedback is just repeating comments already in the Emerald article. e.g. "Although the information Google posts is already accessible online.." They qualified their report. Granted, their headline could have been better phrased, but hey, its an attention grabber, like a lot of newspapers I see. Jake Ortman said on 05/05/03 @ 04:45 PM: Yes, they do touch on that, but I think my biggest gripe is that they mention Google in every paragraph (minus the last two) and only mention the other alternatives once. Google makes it, relatively speaking, fairly easy to get removed from their phone database, while getting removed from the other sites' databases is a less than pleasant experience. Understand, too, that I worked at the Emerald for three years, so I can slam them without them hating me too much ;) Post a comment |
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