There’s a name for how cruel people can get given a little anonymity on the internet. It’s called “online disinhibition effect” and the resulting venom can ruin your day or worse, destroy your good name. Bob looks at the fraught relationship on the web between reputation, privacy and the law.
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Comments [2]
"MARK LEMLEY: Google just passed one trillion websites it indexes with its search engine." This is not plausible, not credible, and not correct. What Google actually announced, in July, 2008 [1], is that their index had passed one trillion unique URLs. Typically, a Web site will have a large number of URLs (often thousands). For example, http://www.onthemedia.org/ is a URL that represents a Web site; http://www.onthemedia.org/episodes/2009/08/14/segments/137959 is one of many URLs within the Web site.
[1] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-knew-web-was-big.html
Good point about NBC vs average people. Why don't those that complain about Google's #5 Search Result just copyright the term, and use the same tactic as NBC?
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