As Google grows and evolves, so does public perception of it. For those of us outside the Googleplex, Google has represented a broad spectrum of things. For a lot of people they’ve made the transition from fun-filled upstart to Evil Empire. We have always known Google for producing fast results, and their speedy evolution is no exception. They’ve run the gamut in less than a decade.
The Belgians for example, aren’t buying into the ‘candyland of information’ philosophy. The Cuban did a survey of the top 20 videos on YouTube and guess how many of them were actually user created content? 3. 17 out of 20 were either copyrighted material or fake porn. Google maintains it cannot possibly police all of the videos submitted to YouTube. However, as Cuban more recently observed online piracy. While they weren’t the actually purveyors of the pirated material in a direct sense, according to the charges, they earned a pretty penny in the form of advertising revenues. Studios have alleged that Google representatives went so far as to suggest keywords like “bootleg movie download”. Bad dog! Bad!.
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Of course, YouTube “does not allow videos showing dangerous or illegal acts.” But the
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