Criticism
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In 2006, it was claimed that Google had archived group which were used for the distribution of illegal content, In past statements on the issue Google has stated that it abides by the appropriate laws and regualtions of the jurisdictions it operates and has when properly informed removed obviously illegal content..
In 2011 Google (in relation to its Groups archive) was criticised in an article by e-week Canada were it was claimed that Google had refused to remove troll content which had falsely claimed that a named individual was involved in paedophilia. The target of the trolling claims in the article that Google refused to remove content, Google's response apparently being "Register websites, write good articles about yourself, and buy some advertising from us, which will improve your ranking.".
Slashdot and Wired contributors have criticized Google for its inattention to a search engine for Google Groups, leaving many older postings virtually inaccessible.
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Famous quotes containing the word criticism:
“I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
“A bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake prestige through being mistaken for good work. It is essentially negative, it is something that has not come through. But over bad criticism one has a sense of real calamity.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
“When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance. He becomes a source of blessings rather than wages. Criticism is sacrilege, doubt is heresy.”
—Ben Hecht (1893–1964)