Dvorak on Google and Wikipedia

cryptoluddite writes "PC Magazine has an article by John C. Dvorak expanding on the community discussion of Google's offer for free web hosting of Wikipedia. Those against the deal point out that Google may be planning to co-opt the encyclopedia as Googlepedia (by restricting access to the complete database). In a revealing speech given by the Google founders, Larry Page says he would 'like to see a model where you can buy into the world's content. Let's say you pay $20 per month.' Should public domain information be free?" It's a pretty scary scenario painted, but one can hardly take a speech from 2001 as serious evidence these days. Update: 02/16 20:16 GMT by T : This story links inadvertently to the second page of the column; here's a link to the first page.

World Domination

[ph34r_Hk]

Google's one step closer to taking over the world now...

Oh great.

[bigtallmofo]

What do we do if Google turns evil?

Re:Oh great.

[grazzy]

When my friend. When if not already.

Re:Oh great.

[CdBee]

Bomb them, of course!

Sorry, I've been watching too much C-Span.

hmmm

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a pretty scary scenario painted, but one can hardly take a speech from 2001 as serious evidence these days.

*insert Bush comment about hunting down Osama Bin Laden here*

Hey, you're right!

Re:World Domination

[bigtangringo]

I, for one, welcome our new 99 zero overlords.

Re:Hmm

[DrEasy]

What does Google have a monopoly on? There are other search engines I can easily use. Maybe you should look up the definition of monopoly?

But what if Googlepedia has already changed the definition of monopoly? brrr...

Avoiding timeouts

[Sindri]

I seriously think Google is offering to host Wikipedia because they are tired of seeing their bot timeout when indexing pages from the site.

Re:"should public domain information be free?"

[Headcase88]

here is the google mirror...

.siht [alltooflat.com] fo em sdnimer taht