The GoogleShmingle

I was going to write this as an article in the theweek, but decided against it because I didn't have enough information and I didn't have that much of a passion to write in the subject, either.

So what is the GoogleShmingle?

Basically, the idea rotates around privacy issues and the intrusion of our space, digitally, in cyberspace.

Google has raised many eyebrows considering all its new software developments lately (i.e.: Google Talk, Google Secure Access Client, etc.) that everyone in the IT industry is actually wondering why is a small time company that began as an exceptional email provider (i.e: Gmail) interested into broadening its horizon into software development for the internet? What is the catch that we're missing?

Many experts have also come to the conclusion that Google is out to know where we go by tracing our 'net footprints through the cookies it uses to operate its software. Its an intelligent development in such a field, and most probably true. And Google is just one of the companies that disrespects issues of privacy the world over.

Local examples are OmanTel through both Oman Mobile and Oman 'Net. By sending unwanted messages to your email box and your mobile phone. Junk mail provided by spammers get through the OmanTel proxy no matter if they're just filled with junk subjects such as investment opportunities, medication, porn but the worst kind is that of the seriously damaging type on your own PC; trojan viruses.

OmanTel has barely moved a muscle with such complaints by their clients about these important issues in exception to the memoir it leaves on its webpage warning users not to register with online services saying that they are the cause. Even if that were the case, that is no excuse for them to sit down and wait for it happen but rather provide a means to protect users from this online abusive manner by updating their spam killing software for their own software just as much as they provide the automatic filter for pornographic content on the internet.

When will OmanTel ever learn that its not the quantity of services you provide to your clients but rather the quality of it and customer care?