Comments on: Google, “Sicko” Opinions & Issues With Playing Ad Agency

By: Winooski

Winooski — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:52:10 +0000

Danny, thanks for waving a huge red flag about the issue of Google appearing to advocate (if not actually advocating per se) for specific industries.

Hopefully calling this sort of thing to attention will help search engines stick to the job of providing relevant information and stay away from the job of corporate public relations.

By: Jeffrey Eisenberg

Jeffrey Eisenberg — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:58:32 +0000

This is fair and balanced. Excellent coverage!

By: Philipp Lenssen

Philipp Lenssen — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:12:14 +0000

Good analysis.

By: Raph Levien

Raph Levien — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 01:19:07 +0000

Thanks for your thoughful comments on this issue. I agree with you that advertising is not inherently democratic, and have a lot more criticism about the way this has been handled on my blog.

Oh, and I work at Google. We’re not all a bunch of faceless drones :)