The Vampire Squid of the Internet.

Rolling Stone’s resident shock journalist Matt Taibbi wrote about Goldman Sachs a few months back.

“The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”

Well, swap ‘Goldman Sachs’ with ‘Google’ and ‘investment bank’ with ‘search engine’ and it still reads well.

I wrote of Google’s culture of theft recently, protesting its copying of copyright materials for their profit and their support of net neutrality for the ‘public good’ when the prime beneficiary is Google.

Now this:

Now, I simply despise Microsoft for the hours of my life they have wasted rebooting PCs and losing data, but as of now I’m switching to Bing for my default search engine in the naïve belief that they actually do a tad less evil than Google. There is simply no circumstance on earth which will have me change my opinion of Microsoft but, in this case, it’s the lesser evil. Even the iPad/iPhone have an option to do this – go to Settings->Safari.

Would you trust Google with anything? Garnering all this data in their drive-by shootings is no accident. A team of people wrote that code with the specific intent of theft and profit, and the code of ethics in a corporation comes from the top. You don’t suddenly spontaneously breed criminality in the lower ranks. Those workers take their clues from their managers, and so on up the tree. Just like at Goldman Sachs.

And when you find your stolen photographs on Google, well, good luck suing them.

Should you read of my untimely demise any day now, just look to the Google Hit Squad of Uzi-bearing ninja assassins.