Still not convinced Google is Evil?
From Jeremie, a proof that Google at the end of the day is just another evil company?
I am absolutely flummoxed that Google, the company who's
entire foundation and success is built on other's content,
would do something so contrary as to become a
walled garden. Seriously, the insolence of this act
simply astonishes me, and I hope others. This is the
company that owns the phrase "Don't Be Evil" and has the
trust of the masses.
Now with Base they boldly
make the statement "Help the world find your content." It
sounds wonderful, another web hosting service and who can
do it better than Google, right? Wrong, when any web tool
other than a browser (such as another search engine) tries
to access the content hosted on Google Base, they
encounter this bit of protocol will disallow all use of
the content to anyone other than Google:
http://base.google.com/robots.txt:
User-agent: *
...
Disallow: /base
Your content that you've entrusted to them to "host and make searchable online" is sitting squarely inside of Google Fort, armed with locked doors for their competition by blocking the very thing that made them a success, the open web.