Video: The Hungry Beast Does Google
Posted on 18. Mar, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey in Videos
This is a video that was made by an Australian ABC television show called “The Hungry Beast”. It’s a great rundown on all of the applications and services that Google is providing for people and offers some good statistics, like the fact that they have almost half a million servers to run their business. The graphics are excellent, and the ending is a bit surprising. It tells you what the Hungry Beast really thinks of Google:
I guess you really have to think objectively about what Google is doing. Sure, they collect a lot of information about us in order for them to best serve advertising. But what they offer us in return are services that are free to us. No one is really forced to use Google and until they unveil the Google Death Star service I’m going to keep using them.
If you’re interesting in learning more about privacy and Google, including the tit for tat between Eric Schmidt and security expert Bruce Schneier a few months ago check out this post.
