[LINK] Trivia: Google Exploits

[Rachel Polanskis]

On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Craig Sanders wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:42:25PM +1000, Roger Clarke wrote:
> > Google's getting awfully dangerous.
> >
> > <anecdote>
>
> i don't know if your anecdote proves that google (or any search engine)
> is dangerous.
>
> what it does highlight is that people will have to learn that anything
> they publish on the net in any way (e.g. web site, mailing list or
> newsgroup posting, chat forum, etc) can and probably will be archived
> forever.

It's my good old law of "persistence of information", which somebody
thought was good enough to archive and to which I gave name in 1995 or
thereabouts.

http://www-ec.njit.edu/~robertso/infosci/persistence.html

I found the link of course, by using Google and people sometimes point
it out to me....

I don't know whether I was the first to invent the term, but it's the oldest
reference I can find from somewhere back in 1995.....

Now they have whole discourses on it.  I wonder if I can get a royalty,
a grant, lunch, or something....? ;)


rachel


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