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Re: Google wants to tell you what you want on the Internet
by
ansible adams
on 29/07/2011, 21:24:22 UTC
Google Offers To Re-Write Your Webpages On The Fly

"Page Speed Service is the latest tool in Google’s arsenal to help speed up the web. This service is also their most ambitious yet. When you sign up and point your site’s DNS entry to Google, they’ll enable the tool which will fetch your content from your servers, rewrite your webpages, and serve them up from Google’s own servers around the world. Yes, you read all of that correctly."

http://cryptogon.com/?p=23786

Just like Mainstream Media filters the information we receive, it sounds like Google wants to filter the content you are looking for too.  This couldn't possibly be used for anything nefarious....  Could it?

This requires the explicit cooperation and opt-in of web site operators, since they control the DNS entries. Web site operators can tell if Google is doing anything other than technical optimization, just by comparing the version served from Google and the original. If Google starts altering or filtering visible content the operators can just switch the DNS entries back.