Nikpages » internet http://www.nikpages.com Blogging about the web, social media and Technology Sat, 24 Jul 2010 10:43:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Google Reveals ‘What’ Countries Want Them To Reveal ? http://www.nikpages.com/google-government-requests/ http://www.nikpages.com/google-government-requests/#comments Mon, 10 May 2010 11:12:09 +0000 Nikhil http://www.nikpages.com/?p=263 google-government-requests

Government Requests is  a tool from Google that reveals what different governments across the Globe are asking them to reveal. These are categorized into two – Data Requests and Removal Requests. Data Requests include requests for information about Google users and products and Removal Requests include requests for removal of content from Google search results.

The data is based on the number of requests received between July 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009. Brazil tops the list with 3663 data requests and 291 removal requests. India is in 4th position in Data Requests with 1061 requests and 3rd in removal requests with 142 requests.

In the FAQ section it says – “We are working on a separate tool to show you when Google services have been blocked by governments or government agencies” .

You can view India’s profile on Open Net Initiative here.

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It’s your life and you should have the right to choose how to live. Why on Earth would someone want to control you unnecessarily as long as you don’t cause trouble for others.

Internet giants are doing no good. According to this blog post at Digital Inspiration companies like Yahoo, Google and Microsoft co-operate wholeheartedly with the Chinese government in implementing internet censorship there. Even Google shows a separate set of search results for China.

WordPress is different That would be the good news to all those WP fans including me. Matt said a big NO to the Communist government on blocking some topics in WordPress or giving out details about WordPress users. Big Kudos to Matt and WordPress.

Thank God the Communists are losing grounds in India and their anti media activities are limited to calling  the main stream media “a syndicate against the communists”.

Image: Xanga-TaiwanIndependent

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Many web pages don’t provide a printer friendly option and the result you have to either print unnecessary text, images and ads or you have to copy paste the required things to a text editor and print that. A solution for this problem is provided by PrintWhatYouLike

This is an online service and you don’t have to install anything locally. Just enter the URL of the page and start editing the web page until you get your required output. You can delete sections of the page,widen them or isolate, including images,ads and background. You can change the font of the web page, increase or decrease the font size etc.

Here is the screen shot of this page edited using PrintWhatYouLike.

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