I love most google applications. I don’t know what I would without Gmail. Google maps is so handy. Google has also become my preferred choice for News Aggeration and RSS syndication. I have even started to like Google Docs, despite the fact that I think they are pointless compared to Microsoft Word and Open Office. (Full disclosure: I’ve never used Open Office – I love Word prior to the 2007 mess).
However, I’m giving the big F-U to Google News today. Not because they are an inferior product. But rather because they are too damn good at getting to know what I like. Under my entertainment news section was an article stub about the results of last night’s Top Chef finale. I’m a ridiculous Top Chef fan. I’ve only missed one season (Season 2) – because at the time I did not have cable. So, good job to google for thinking I’d want to see that information.
Jeers to google for not knowing that I DVR’ed the episode and had not got a chance to watch that yet – thus making the headline an episode ruiner. (And seriously Hosea! WTF?!! Now I really have to watch that fucking episode. You can’t make out with contestant and be treated as a serious contestant!).
I really shouldn’t complain that much. The alternative, from Google’s perspective, is to create a new technology that will link up my DVR viewing habits with my news reading habits and sync all of the information that I might want to have s0 that there is no risk of spoiling surprises and an ever erroding sphere of personal privacy.
