[Search-l] Widgets

[Mark (Markie)]

heh, you should know not to take me seriously when i say stuff like that, i
say "evil" in the loose way that it is not as good as "us", but really im
still a google user and business is business so i dont really hold anything
against them (apart from not being WS :-p)

mark

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:

> Mark (Markie) wrote:
> > hmmm we could do but then we would be using more google resources (evil)
> > but would then get free results (good), so we have to balance that up.
> > i know there was some open source kit somewhere, that did geolocation by
> > ip and JS calls etc, but i cant remember where/what it was.  will have
> > to see if i can dig it up again
>
> Just to be clear, I do not think that google is evil.  Of course I think
> it is better when we think really really hard about how to create free
> (in the sense of GNU) alternatives to currently proprietary solutions,
> but I don't think we should be paranoid about google or any other
> company... at least not to the point that it hinders our work. :)
>
> --Jimbo
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