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:
“Good criticism is very rare and always precious.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis and as synthesis, it was a criticism of appearance. Surrealism transmuted the object, and suddenly a canvas became an apparition: a new figuration, a real transfiguration.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)
“The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)