Talk:Criticism of Google

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Criticism of Google article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Archives: Index, 1, 2, 3, 4: 365 days

Archive 2 contains the thread "Google Watch History"

The subject of this article is controversial and content may be in dispute. When updating the article, be bold, but not reckless. Feel free to try to improve the article, but don't take it personally if your changes are reversed; instead, come here to the talk page to discuss them. Content must be written from a neutral point of view. Include citations when adding content and consider tagging or removing unsourced information.

This article is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Please add the quality rating to the {{WikiProject banner shell}} template instead of this project banner. See WP:PIQA for details.

Mass surveillance C‑class Mid‑importance

	Criticism of Google is within the scope of WikiProject Mass surveillance, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of mass surveillance and mass surveillance-related topics. If you would like to participate, visit the project page, or contribute to the discussion.Mass surveillanceWikipedia:WikiProject Mass surveillanceTemplate:WikiProject Mass surveillanceMass surveillance articles
C	This article has been rated as C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Please add the quality rating to the {{WikiProject banner shell}} template instead of this project banner. See WP:PIQA for details.

Google C‑class High‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Google, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Google and related topics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.GoogleWikipedia:WikiProject GoogleTemplate:WikiProject GoogleGoogle articles

C This article has been rated as C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

High This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

WikiProject Google To-do:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Articles for most of the other products listed here and here.
Assess : All articles in the Category:Unknown-importance Google articles and Category:Unassessed Google articles using the project's assessment scale
Expand : Google Mapathon, Google Talkback
Maintain : This WikiProject
Merge : Google mobile services into List of Google products
Stubs : Category:Stub-Class Google articles and Category:Google stubs
Update : List of features in Android and Gmail interface#Product integration. Update logos of Google Marketing Platform products
Other :
- Add more stuff to this to do list if you like! (click here...)
- create:
- Help the Google article for a good article status
- Improve the Outline of Google
- Get more members using :
{{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Google/Invite Members}}
- Infobox Images with transparent areas needing a different background color

Please add the quality rating to the {{WikiProject banner shell}} template instead of this project banner. See WP:PIQA for details.

Technology C‑class

	Technology portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Technology, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of technology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.TechnologyWikipedia:WikiProject TechnologyTemplate:WikiProject TechnologyTechnology articles
C	This article has been rated as C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

Please add the quality rating to the {{WikiProject banner shell}} template instead of this project banner. See WP:PIQA for details.

Internet C‑class Mid‑importance

	Internet portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Internet, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the Internet on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.InternetWikipedia:WikiProject InternetTemplate:WikiProject InternetInternet articles
C	This article has been rated as C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

This article was nominated for deletion on 6 August 2008. The result of the discussion was keep.

Text and/or other creative content from this version of Censorship by Google was copied or moved into Criticism of Google with this edit. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

Scroogle was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 19 March 2013 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Criticism of Google. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

Make Scroogle an article

Italian Wikipedia has a scroogle article, I don't see why we don't. I don't really understand how the existence of a competitor is a "criticism" or anything. is the existence of Pepsi a criticism of coke? are planes criticisms of boats? Scroogle as an article may be small. but it makes more sense as an article then it does as a "criticism" or google. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bryce Carmony (talk • contribs) 01:02, 14 March 2015 (UTC) Support Bryce Carmony (talk) 13:58, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support ChristopheT (talk) 21:23, 18 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@ChristophThomas and Bryce Carmony: Scroogle is already a redirect page that points to a relevant section, so I don't think it needs to be turned into an article. Jarble (talk) 16:07, 23 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Get ready for the flood when people realise right click language selection in edit boxes is gone from chrome.

This is big. Where you were able to right click and select the language you were typing in only a general language settings entry remains. There is now an amalgamated spell checker checking all languages you subscribe to. This is only useful for people who only use a single language on a daily basis. Europeans for example who use a lot more are appalled. Having multiple languages with a lot of words with similar spelling French , Spanish , Portugese , Italian ... come to mind result in suggested corrections being in another language than the one you're typing in. A google search within the month of december will show hundreds of people reacting to this change. Exasperação is growing exponentieel. 83.101.79.241 (talk) 07:21, 23 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

How did this happen? must know more! also, this page needs a lot of work. for one there have been a lot of developments in the EU antitrust case Masonpew (talk) 10:21, 29 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Google Watch

We should clarify what Google Watch is (an organization)? Also, the next paragraph states "Daniel Brandt started the Google Watch website and..." and that sentence is followed by "Chris Beasley, who started Google Watch and disagrees...". I am confused: are they co-founders of the same website? I did find Google Watch Watch which was started by Chris so maybe this is what was meant to be said here? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 05:46, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Criticism of Google. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20130602043606/http://www.turnoffthebluelight.ie/ to http://www.turnoffthebluelight.ie/

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at {{Sourcecheck}}).

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 12:50, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

discontinuing products/services

Google has the nasty habit of discontinuing prodocuts/service regardless of users and popularity, the list is really long and thoroughly documented here: List_of_Google_products#Discontinued_products_and_services and here are two inforgraphs showing some discontinued products: Google Products Graveyard & All The Useful Products Google Has Killed Off.

Commentary about this:

The biggest thing I remember was over Google_Reader#Discontinuation, but maybe canceling other services had a bigger effect on local/specific groups (e.g. Orkut#Shutdown).

There is a dedicated website that tracks Google products and the possibility of them shuting down: DidGoogleShutdown.com.

This is about everything I have, someone should write it up and add it to the "Other" section. --DelftUser (talk) 09:46, 2 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 6 external links on Criticism of Google. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at {{Sourcecheck}}).

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 14:52, 2 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

DO NOT REMOVE THIS, I AM NOT VANDALIZING AN ARTICLE AND IT IS RELEVANT TO THE SUBJECT

I need to tell G Suite that a site that I LOVED to visit (www.supermodelbeach.com) expired on 2-18-17 and that I dont think that the owner of this site is aware that it expired because it was still being regularly updated. And I can't because someone at Google decided it would be a good idea to only let people with some fancy kind of email address contact them. Seriously, what the hell? Anyone should be able to contact any company they want, isn't that the way it's always been?