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WikiSysop at 13:44, 11 January 2009

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WikiSysop at 07:39, 11 January 2009

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NewUserName at 09:45, 21 October 2007

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RainDog at 08:30, 13 October 2007

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RainDog at 08:12, 10 October 2007

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RainDog at 07:30, 10 October 2007

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RainDog at 09:51, 8 October 2007

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RainDog at 08:45, 8 October 2007

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RainDog at 19:27, 7 October 2007

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RainDog at 17:57, 7 October 2007

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 GING is a recurrent acronym standing for "GING is not Google."
-Richard Stallman invented the Free Software Movement with a project called GNU, which is a recurrent acronym for "GNU (is) not Unix." Actually GNU is a slightly modified form of the traditional recurrent acronym, because the "I" of "is" is left out.
+[[Richard Stallman]] invented the Free Software Movement with a project called GNU, which is a recurrent acronym for "GNU (is) not Unix." Actually GNU is a slightly modified form of the traditional recurrent acronym, because the "I" of "is" is left out.
-GING is not Google. The idea is to apply Free Software principles towards the creation of an alternative to the Google search engine. I say "Free Software" and not "Open Source" software, because this is one case where the whole point is to reject the overwhelming commercialization of the web. Google is right on the front lines of that commercialization, to the extent that the mechanisms for the listing and ranking of sites seem to be increasingly influenced by considerations of how much cash Google can stuff into their own pockets.
+GING is not Google. The idea is to apply [[Free Software]] principles towards the creation of an alternative to the Google search engine. I say [[Free Software]] and not [[Open Source Software]], because this is one case where the whole point is to reject the overwhelming commercialization of the web. Google is right on the front lines of that commercialization, to the extent that the mechanisms for the listing and ranking of sites seem to be increasingly influenced by considerations of how much cash Google can stuff into their own pockets.
 During the recent [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_worm Storm Worm] epidemic, experts calculated that the potential computing power of all of the zombie computers linked into the Storm Worm network amounted to the largest super-computer of all times. (How did it compare with Google's computing capacity?) Surely there must be some way to use P2P software to create enough computing capacity to make an alternative to Google.

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 Richard Stallman invented the Free Software Movement with a project called GNU, which is a recurrent acronym for "GNU (is) not Unix." Actually GNU is a slightly modified form of the traditional recurrent acronym, because the "I" of "is" is left out.
-GING is not Google. The idea is to apply Free Software principles towards the creation of an alternative to the Google search engine. I say "Free Software" and not "Open Source" software, because this is one case where the whole point is to reject the overwhelming commercialization of the web. Google is right on the front lines of that commercialization, to the extent that the mechanisms for the listing and ranking of sites are increasingly influenced by considerations of how much cash Google can stuff into their own pockets.
+GING is not Google. The idea is to apply Free Software principles towards the creation of an alternative to the Google search engine. I say "Free Software" and not "Open Source" software, because this is one case where the whole point is to reject the overwhelming commercialization of the web. Google is right on the front lines of that commercialization, to the extent that the mechanisms for the listing and ranking of sites seem to be increasingly influenced by considerations of how much cash Google can stuff into their own pockets.
 During the recent [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_worm Storm Worm] epidemic, experts calculated that the potential computing power of all of the zombie computers linked into the Storm Worm network amounted to the largest super-computer of all times. (How did it compare with Google's computing capacity?) Surely there must be some way to use P2P software to create enough computing capacity to make an alternative to Google.

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	During the recent [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_worm Storm Worm] epidemic, experts calculated that the potential computing power of all of the zombie computers linked into the Storm Worm network amounted to the largest super-computer of all times. (How did it compare with Google's computing capacity?) Surely there must be some way to use P2P software to create enough computing capacity to make an alternative to Google.		During the recent [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_worm Storm Worm] epidemic, experts calculated that the potential computing power of all of the zombie computers linked into the Storm Worm network amounted to the largest super-computer of all times. (How did it compare with Google's computing capacity?) Surely there must be some way to use P2P software to create enough computing capacity to make an alternative to Google.
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		+	For some ideas on how the system would work, see [[More on GING]].

	==See also==		==See also==

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 ==See also==
 *[[GoogleMafia]]
 *[[RainDog's Second Rant]]
 [[Category:RainDog's Opinions]]

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 Richard Stallman invented the Free Software Movement with a project called GNU, which is a recurrent acronym for "GNU (is) not Unix." (Actually GNU is a slightly modified form of the traditional recurrent acrocnym, because the "I" of "is" is left out.)
-GING is not Google. The idea is to apply Free Software principles towards the creation of an alternative to the Google search engine. I say "Free Software" and not "Open Source" software, because this is one case where the whole point is to reject the overwhelming commercialization of the web. Google is right on the front lines of that commercialization, to the extent that the mechanisms for the listing and ranking of sites are increasingly influenced by considerations of how much cash Google can stuff in their own pockets.
+GING is not Google. The idea is to apply Free Software principles towards the creation of an alternative to the Google search engine. I say "Free Software" and not "Open Source" software, because this is one case where the whole point is to reject the overwhelming commercialization of the web. Google is right on the front lines of that commercialization, to the extent that the mechanisms for the listing and ranking of sites are increasingly influenced by considerations of how much cash Google can stuff into their own pockets.
 During the recent Storm Worm epidemic, experts calculated that the potential computing power of all of the zombie computers linked into the Storm Worm network amounted to the largest super-computer of all times. (How did it compare with Google's computing capacity?) Surely there must be some way to use P2P software to create enough computing capacity to make an alternative to Google.