I am normally a fan of the doings of Google Inc.. Indeed, it may be that I will find I still am since I am waiting to hear back from their Security team regarding some badness I stumbled upon and reported.
Their claim “Don’t be evil ” and their ‘Ten things Google has found to be true’ with ‘You can make money without doing evil’ at number six, have left me with confidence in Google’s ‘niceness’ (yes, perhaps I am too trusting, but hey, we are what we are).
So I was somewhat taken aback when I spotted this advert: →
My hope is that Google admits they dropped the ball (their computers algorithms are only human, right?), that this advert was allowed into their data engine when it should have been rejected and that they will fix this hole. If this is what happens then my own personal ‘niceness’ rating for Google will be maintained, or perhaps rise. Here’s hoping…
