This documentary provides an in-depth look into the world of Google
and how it is achieving its goals. However, this documentary also
investigates whether Google is aware of the responsibility it has,
being the guard to the entire world’s information, including personal
information about its users. The documentary poses the question: will
Google continue to serve as a middleman that brings all useful
information to the people? Or will it turn into a monopolistic
Big Brother that challenges the freedom of information?
Google - Behind the screen is an Dutch documentary
which aired in Australia the 04.07.2006 on SBS.
A wonderful documentary (47 mins) created by Ijsbrand van Veelen
features some interesting discussions with Marissa Mayer, Vint Cerf,
Ian Brown (Open Rights Group), Brewster Kahle (founder of Internet
Archive) and some Google engineers. They talk about PageRank, targeted
advertising, life at Google, user privacy, machine translation, the
story of “Don’t be evil”, book search, the danger of Google’s monopoly,
Google Earth. The video is really well-made, it tries to be objective
by showing different opinions on the same subject, even though it’s
more inclined towards conspiracy theories.
The documentary puts tough questions like: “How can you convince
people that Google isn’t a Big Brother company?”, “Can we see how
do you scan the books?”, “Should the digitization of books be made
by a company like Google who may require fees to query the database
for a research project?”, “What happens if a search engine becomes dominant?”.
TV Review:
www.smh.com.au/news/tv-reviews/google–behind-the-screen/2006/07/03/1151778859622.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/143135010/GOOGLE.Behind.The.Screen.2006.XviD.DOCU.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/143137459/GOOGLE.Behind.The.Screen.2006.XviD.DOCU.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/143137547/GOOGLE.Behind.The.Screen.2006.XviD.DOCU.part3.rar
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