This post is put in the category of retrieval, but is this the right place? Google seems increasingly to see itself as a brand, and as the web develops, its inherent flaws become ever more amplified.

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What organisation, that took information management seriously would produce this? A list of ‘resources’ to add to a personalised google home page. It goes on and on and on with nothing to tell the user whether they are at the beginning, middle or end.

Are the resources organised by the most popular (whatever that means)? They’re certainly not organised alphabetically. And although this ‘category’ is ‘technology’ it’s not clear what relationship some of these resources have with technology, if any.

What the internet now has is the development of a set of monopolies around Microsoft, Google and a few others. Be afraid, be very afraid…