Googlephobia growing

Ivan Pope reports on growing Googlephobia (and that in advance of their launch of a mobile phone network that will know where you are and what your voice sounds like):

You know something is hitting the popular imagination when it makes front page news. Today the Independent, with a hint of sensationalism, has put Google on the front page. So what’s brought it to this? The Independent story starts with Eric Schmidt’s somewhat daft comment that “The goal is to enable Google users to be able to ask the question such as ‘What shall I do tomorrow?’ and ‘What job shall I take?’.” However, there is a lot more to it than that, as anyone who follows online news will be realising. The Techmeme news service is flooded day after day with Google stories as they make the tech weather. Here are seven recent Google stories that go into the Googleophobia mix:

1. Google want’s to tell you what to do tomorrow (see above)


2. Google buys Feedburner and knows what RSS feeds we are reading


3. Google invests in human genetics firm


4. Google buys Doubleclick to control the human sum of banner advertising


5. Google wants us to report ‘paid links‘ so they can police them


6. Google launch their ‘Web History‘ product and reveal just how much they know about you


7. Google installs ‘virtual spyware‘ on Dell computers

That personal and personalised information Google is tracking is all adding up...