Google Work-At-Home Kit? Make Money Posting Links From Home? Get Paid For Doing Absolutely Nothing?
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In my Internet Complaint Box post, I briefly touched on the barrel-bottom forum over at Google, where any and all forms of complaint and discussion seem to rise, as if bubbling from the soupy runoff of a newbie processing plant. By far, the most common discussion is the “Internet scam”.
A certain degree of triage is performed by myself and several other “power-user” contributors. Unfortunately, most of these episodes are too far along to offer any satisfactory resolve – credit cards have been handed over, repeat charges are appearing on bank statements, and representative phone numbers aren’t working.
Once again, these scams have absolutely nothing to do with Google. But since “Google” is synonymous with “Internet”, people seem to think Google should know that they’ve been scammed on “their” Internet. It really is a serious problem, and I truly feel remorse for most of these unfortunate victims.
And then there are the smarter folks.
Rupert Murdoch to Internet: “Get Off My Lawn”
Show of hands: Who doesn't understand Google?
To get everyone up to speed, Rupert Murdoch is the News Corporation CEO and owner of such fine news media outlets as Fox News, the Sun, and the Times. (By the way, the Internet needs a universally agreed upon “sarcasm” formatting.)
In recent weeks, Murdoch has begun to lay out plans to remove much of his News Corp content from the eyes of popular search engines. Claiming that sites like Google “steal” his material, Murdoch plans to implement a giant “paywall” around his news empire, forcing users to pay a subscription fee in order to view his content.
After announcing this, every tech blog and social media site went berserk with laughter, with Twitter founder Biz Stone predicting Murdoch’s plan to “fail fast”.
I, for one, cannot wait to see this grumpy old man fight the Internet. To me, Rupert Murdoch is the 12:00-flashing VCR of the 21st century.
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