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Google's greatest controversies and biggest foul-ups

Summary: A run down of some of the most controversial decisions or actions by Google, including some of their biggest mistakes to date.

Zack Whittaker

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Google bombing has gone down in history as the first unofficial and unintended 'Easter egg' of Google. Many have used it for reasons of political activism -- such as aligning the word "failure" to former U.S. president George W. Bush, along with many others.

But also have used it for commercial purposes, namely "spamdexing". This has opened Google up to abuse, proving that their algorithms are not infallible and are open to abuse.

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For more on company controversies, check out Zack Whittaker's iGeneration column or for more on Google, visit the ZDNet Googling Google column.

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Topics: Social Enterprise, Google, China

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  • RE: Google's greatest controversies and biggest foul-ups

    why do I keep reading teh BS about google. It is liek Watching a G rated Horror Flick
    Ez_Customs
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  • RE: Google's greatest controversies and biggest foul-ups

    seriously you got to be kidding me im an artist, and I have a huge imagination, but you gotta be smoking DMT 1) to maybe first see the burning flag. 2)To even think, that is worth making a report about.

    -The Dead, Shop
    bosleyjack@...
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  • Flag burning? Really?

    Who in their right mind saw that image as a burning flag? Only a conspiracy nuts would have come up with that!
    mlandon
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  • Haven't you seen the face of evil in apple sign

    Conspiracy theorists can make anything out of thin air or thick cloud
    binuvarghese
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  • RE: Google's greatest controversies and biggest foul-ups

    Someone is trying to get famous from seeing this as a flag burning.
    guywayne
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  • RE: Google's greatest controversies and biggest foul-ups

    Test
    flobi15
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  • Flag issue shouldn't have been included.

    This (flag burning doodle reference) is only adding to a controversy that never should have existed in the first place. The "Doodle" is obviously the sun shining through the clouds, through the flag itself which is showing the top of the "e" in "Google" as a silhouette through the flag. Controversial my behind.
    bandersnatch42vt
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