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   Diary of a Googlist

   

   Anonymous Coward, Sep 10th, 2003 @ 2:40pm

   
   

   Recently TheSmokingGun was able to dredge up all kinds of posts from people that used UseNet ( owned by Google ironically ) who are or are going to be on the next Survivor series.
   
   ( See the link )
   http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/hastiemain1.html
   
   Perhaps this is one of the reasons Google is offering blogging free. When Google effectively owns complete diary's of people's lives, it will be a windfall for them to sell data about infamous people to news agencies.

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   Re: Diary of a Googlist

   

   Kyle Maxwell, Sep 10th, 2003 @ 4:28pm

   
   

   This is just so wrong I had to say something.

   Google does not own USENET; they bought an archive of the traffic on it from DejaNews. That's like saying Google "owns" the web. They cache and index it, that's it. And anyone who thinks Google is planning to sell data about individuals, "infamous" or otherwise, is not familiar with Google's history or don't-be-evil philosophy.

   Judge for yourselves, and let the trolls go back under their bridges.

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   Re: Diary of a Googlist

   

   AMetamorphosis, Sep 10th, 2003 @ 6:42pm

   
   

   I'm so very impressed.
   I may not have had every subtle nuance and correct language, but you are a truely knowledgeable person.
   Regardless, a quick little " clicky " on the link above and you explain to me how The Smoking Gun got their information ?
   Quote from website: " Sent from Hastie's college e-mail addresses, the messages are part of the Usenet archive that has been maintained since 1995 (first by Deja.com and now by Google). "
   
   

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   Re: Diary of a Googlist

   

   Anonymous Coward, Sep 10th, 2003 @ 8:27pm

   
   

   > [...] the Usenet archive that has been maintained since 1995 [...]< br>
   Actually, it goes back a little farther than that... I've found stuff in there from the late 1980s... more specifically, *my* stuff.
   
   I also didn't find some of *my* stuf prior to ~1988. So, they do indeed have only a partial archive of USENET.

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   Re: Diary of a Googlist

   

   AMetamorphosis, Sep 11th, 2003 @ 6:14am

   
   

   Funny, I've found a lot of my junk too from the pastunder different screen names. I do believe in some sense we are selling our thoughts and ramblings / writings without any thought to copyright law ... ( grin )

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