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Is Google Plagiarizing?Allow me to engage you in the controversy over the latest beta release of Google's popular Toolbar application. Folks like Walt Mossberg, Dave Winer, and Dan Gillmor are upset because the application changes the display of your website when it is viewed using Google's Toolbar. I find it interesting that Winer, who is the developer and main instigator of RSS 2.0--a technology which ultimately transforms the way content is received, displayed and/or consumed--is concerned about Google's latest application in a recent podcast. (Dave's podcast is currently linked to as "podcast #2 for the day" of 3/1/05.) Though I find Dave's concerns interesting, I'd be foolish--and wrong--to make any further comparison between Mr. Winer's innovation and Google's technology. For RSS is based on the author or publisher's choice in making their content available for delivery via RSS. Google's Toolbar, on the other hand, doesn't require this permission of the content author; it simply takes the content and transforms it, adding it's own hyperlinks--an act that verges on plagiarism while potentially capitalizing on other content producers' works. Since I haven't tried Google's Toolbar yet--I'm using Mac and Linux these days, and the latest Toolbar runs only on Windows--I'm not fully decided on whether the technology is ultimately for the better or the worse. Yet initially I'm in accord agree with Walt, Dave, and Dan's criticisms and will add my own. Google's introduction of their new Toolbar seems to be indicative of a search for revenue growth, perhaps a maneuver aimed at filling shareholder's coffers. That's what it seems to me, though I could be wrong--yet I can't help but wonder whether Google would ever have introduced this current incarnation of Toolbar had it not become a public company?
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