Fuck you Google*.

August 12, 2008 · 69 comments

in Rants

There, I said it. FUCK YOU GOOGLE*.

I put no script back on my firefox install just so I could block Google Analytics.

It seems like 80% of the websites I go to have Analytics installed on it (even I use it on this hunk of shit site), so they are getting a massive amount of browsing data for all of us assholes who use gmail and what not… so I say balls to them. Let them track me another way… which may actually be through cookies on sites using analytics… not really sure how it works, but I would love to hear a way to block them from obtaining my browsing data completely.

I am fine with them gathering my data from their own sites, but 3rd parties I am bit paranoid about.

I saw an interesting presentation at Defcon this last week which pretty much proved that Google does not give a fuck about the well being of their users. It was done by a guy named RSNAKE, who I have never heard of (not surprising, since I am not a "hacker"), but he did one hell of a presentation. It was actually awesome.

Worth checking out his work… here is a link to one of the issues with gmodules and the exploits. And an article about how Google is ranked the worst in privacy.

It turns out RSNAKE is the equivalent of Aaron Wall / SEOBOOK, but in the Hacker/security community instead of the marketing side of things. I think the 2 of them should talk.

Anyhow it seems as Google is getting more powerful with more reach each day. Them "merging" with Yahoo on the advertising side of things is some pretty scary shit, and it will be interesting to see how that plays out. If I had to guess, there will be some heavy outside intervention to prevent that from happening.

Anyhow, I hope it does not happen, and either MSFT buys them, or Jerry Yang gets shot, and the company is run by someone who is less of an asshole.

I am hoping someone can spider the interweb and see what percent of sites are running Google Analytics, so I can properly shit myself when I see the usage data. It would be nice to scan the top 100,000 Alexa sites and see who is sharing data with the BIG G.

Anyhow, that is all. Are you scared of Google? I am!

* Actually I love you Google. You make me money day in and day out. You have the best advertising platform out there. Even though you are doing your best to make me pay more per click, I am okay with that. You deliver real users, and lots of them. Keep up the good work.

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1 haroon 08.23.08 at 4:07 am

Under the umbrella of my personal experience with Google, I can say that their success has made them rude. You will feel my pain when, for some reason, you are pushed to communicate with their support team.

You cannot overcome your rude attitude by serving better, it is what I believe.

2 Steven Robert 10.16.08 at 9:49 am

No, seriously, fuck Google. We had AdSense set up on our page and three weeks after the fact the account was cancelled due to "illegal click activity" which makes no sense to me seeing I never clicked on my own ads. And we only made $50 in those 3 weeks, was it really enough Google? Really?

3 me 11.27.08 at 9:56 am

Seriously, FUCK google the web meglomaniac, they are no better than any poxy dictator who has tried to run the world, (a german with a stupid little mustache comes to mind).
Just who do they think they are, getting us all to perform like circus animals just to appease their algorithm's, the quicker we all STOP using Google for advertising and search the quicker they will get their kick in the balls that they have so non chalantly dealt out to so many hard working and honest webmasters. and in many cases unfairly taking away those webmasters livelihoods.
FUCK you Google Your Time is nigh!

4 NO GOOGLE USER 11.27.08 at 11:29 am

FUCK YOU GOOGLE!

for more Information: scroogle.org

5 The Bishop 12.04.08 at 2:24 pm

GOOGLE..it is a constant battle with half ass sites / bloggs with their google friendly coding that is pushing the keyword war into the realm of obserd!
why do i have to compete with fuck head who uses my company name as his user name and he takes the first 5 spots on google..like seriously what the faaawwk! i paid for a domain name ( 57 to be exact ) so why do i have to compete with numb nuts that cant string a single piece of code together for names and keywords i OWN. i am with you guys FUCK GOOGLE and FUCK ADWORDS by google i pay for keywords for my ads to show up and they never do keywords that have no ads in the first place …its a big rip off

6 Chetan 12.10.08 at 8:01 am

Now a days Google is leading in Internet world, i think Microsoft must buy Yahoo so that atleast some one will be there to compete with Google.

7 wowidiots 12.24.08 at 11:00 am

wow, i was pissed at google and was going to comment but now i see this comment area is already filled with crazy kooks. at least google isn't insane.

8 earfetish 12.27.08 at 7:47 am

I think it's pretty funny that a lot of visitors to this page will have gotten here by idly googling 'fuck Google'.

Everyone loves Google. They're our benevolent overlords.

9 obliterator 01.01.09 at 11:43 pm

I type "fuck google" to see what happens, i don't have advertising in my site so i can't make an opinion at this respect. At least their free services work well.

Anyway, fuck them in the eye socket for their monopolistic attitude.

10 passerby 01.10.09 at 5:09 am

I typed 'fuck google' shortly after reading 'personalised based on your web history' in the search results, and just before uninstalling their spyware toolbar.

11 ravi 01.13.09 at 5:54 am

luv u google

12 GoogleFuc!$%& 01.17.09 at 10:36 am

I hate Google. I am glad their stock has been cut in half since 2008 – 2009. I hope they go bankrupt and the CEO's have to suck C0c! to buy food. Google you are a bunch of losers. Search Yahoo! instead.

13 Fuck Google! 01.17.09 at 2:03 pm

NOT even google can find what i am looking for. so

FUCK GOOGLE! FUCK IT! FUCK OVER 10000 PEPOLE WHO USE IT!
THE WORLDS MOST GREATEST SERCH ENGINE CANT FIND
Mac desk tops! I HAD IT!

14 Fuck Google! 01.17.09 at 2:04 pm

I HATE GOOGLE. NOW YOU WILL TO!

15 Fuck Google! 01.17.09 at 2:05 pm

RAVI FUCK YOU 2

16 Fuck Google! 01.17.09 at 2:06 pm

haroon. i feel your pain too

17 Miguel 01.17.09 at 2:38 pm

Of course,

fuck you Google. Millions of webmasters doing the job for them, and they just take the money and fill the internet with dumb and ridiculous search results. Google destroys the internet, we all know that.

Now… things will change a lot for Google and the Bilderberger Kids within the next three years.

What a stupid name. Would have never come to anything without Rockefellers billions setting up 22 thousand servers in seven months.

Algorithm. You are kidding.

Have a nice day, Google. Enjoy it.

18 egokiller 01.23.09 at 5:25 am

Stalin would have loved Google.

19 Jop 01.27.09 at 3:40 pm

FUCK GOOGLE !!!!!

20 IHateThem 01.28.09 at 2:40 pm

Yep. Fuck em HIGH!

21 Smile for the Camera, Google! 02.03.09 at 2:26 am

In response to Google's StreetLevel spys, I propose that in retaliation there needs to be a group of photographers that follows Google employees and founders around and takes their pictures ALL the fucking time. Follow the bastards to lunch.. take their picture. Sit in cars outside their homes with bigass lenses and take pictures of everything they do. When they smoke a joint, take a picture. When they have a drink and then drive, take pictures. Publish photographs of their liscence plates, their children, homes and pets. Maybe then the fucktards will understand the value of privacy. Fuck you Google. Fuck you in your stupid Orwellian asses.

22 charles 02.11.09 at 12:34 am

after only 2 days google suspended my account and refused to give a reason, honestly their reps are the worst I have ever seen in my life. I have removed google from the hundreds of computers I manage and moved them to yahoo – google is the worst and no one should support them

23 KIRKY 02.11.09 at 3:44 pm

I CONTACTE GOOGLE AD WORDS DEPT…..I WISH I HAD,NT THO, WHAT A BUNCH OF C++++! GOOGLE YOU CAN STICK YOUR AD,S UP YOUR A+++!THE CHEEKY C+++ EVEN SENT ME A FREE£50 VOUCHER………HOW FUCKING MUCH ADVERTISING WOULD THAT GET YOU? DONT ASK ME! I HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA HOW THEIR CRAZY PROGRAMME WORKS, DIDNT THEN , DONT NOW…….WORST CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE EVER ON LINE, EVEN WORSE THAN FUCKING EBASTARDS….. [THEIR ALL THIEVES AND SCAM ARTISTS TO]

24 mama 02.12.09 at 4:26 am

i want to fuck yahooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo search engine.the non sence in thw world

25 Frank T 02.12.09 at 4:13 pm

I am now browsing with http://www.ixquick.com they do record your IP address and they also have a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) feature between your an their servers, that way your ISP cannot snoop . . . pass it along.

26 stanislav 02.22.09 at 7:57 am

fffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucccccccccccccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk gggggggggggggooooooooooooooooooooooggggggggggggggglllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

27 stanislav 02.22.09 at 7:58 am

fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck google google google google
fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

28 Bush 02.24.09 at 3:39 am

So I googled, fuck google, and this is what i got…….. LOL!!!! Fuck em all!!!!!

29 Emile 03.08.09 at 1:56 pm

"For force always attracts men of
low morality, and I believe it to be
an invariable rule that tyrants of genius
are succeeded by scoundrels."
–Albert Einstein

30 Ricky Ricardo 03.09.09 at 4:50 pm

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
GGGGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGGGGGGGGGGGGGGLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEE
THEY FUCKED UP EVERYTHING YOU CAN THINK OF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SO FUCK YOU GOOGLE.
PPL PASS THE WORD…USE ANOTHER SEARCH ENGINE EVERYONE

31 DataMinerals 03.11.09 at 4:51 am

Fuck google indeed, but no-scripts won't keep analytics from tracking you, you'd need to put google in your hosts file and redirect all google traffic elsewere.

32 googlesux 03.15.09 at 6:35 am

you have analytics too :) )

33 kulasXD 03.16.09 at 10:15 am

i have joined adsense last november my earnings from november to march is only $59.55. so in 4 months with adsense, only $59.55.. and 2 days ago they disabled my account for illegal click activity.. what the fuck? they dont even emailed me if they record those "illegal click activities" theyre talking about they just disabled it. i havent clicked on my own ads.not even once.. and hey i made a search FUCK GOOGLE and ended here.. i support you guys!

FUCK GOOGLE!!!
*do they really give those earnings back to the advertisers??? or they just dont want to pay us?*

34 I hate google 03.16.09 at 12:05 pm

Fuck You Google. Suddenly you drop my website from the search result…Fuck Off

35 marshallmat 03.21.09 at 11:38 am

I LUV U VERY MUCH GOOGLE…..FUCK THOSE ASSSOOLES WHO DONT EVEN KNOW HOW TO GO FOR A REFINED SEARCH..NO WONDER Y GOOGLE IS ON TOP..FORGET ABOUT THESE GODDAMN NEGATIVE COMMENTS..!!!

36 Steve 03.22.09 at 12:11 pm

hey. fuck google.

37 GOoGLe Fucker 03.31.09 at 5:41 pm

OH MAN, I just want you, google, masons, jewish dogs to know this:
GO….FUCK…..YOURSELF.

I made 200$ in 3 weeks on my site

Guess what? Account deleted, why? illegal click shit bla yourmothercock

Aah you know what ? FUCK YOU!

38 google hater 04.03.09 at 2:02 am

google is the world best time wasting fucker! wasting honest webmasters precious time just because of their fucking algorithm. do we seriously need their search engine? over my ass! we still can survive with other search engine. i think the internet will be a better place if google will just die off. RIP. thanks! once again … FUCK YOU GOOGLE! you're seriously a human time and labour waster! numerous hard working people are now dupe into their adsense madness, wasting their productive labour just to produce "RICH CONTENT" for that miserable penny??? this is pure madness and waste of human capital!!! GOOGLE, please for GOD sake, just die off! RIP. I'll not weep for you. REST IN PEACE.

39 JASON Bourne 04.06.09 at 2:41 pm

guss what, google just fucked with us, give me 12 months and google as goog as gone, i mean finished!

all their staff can look for new job, they have less than 12 months from april 2009.

40 RAJ G 04.06.09 at 4:42 pm

Google staff have just fucked with World Prince 1999 and they have to look for new job as google will disappear with in few months, make no mistake about it, I have problem with banks and you all know whats happening to banks, visited SRI LANKA 2004 and you know what happened there, do you want the list, I am the real Prince and Google just fucked with me, I may not have any money at present , thats what god want me to learn, live among the poor! Google look for new job! clock is ticking. or come up with $300 million , just may god will let your company live?

41 RAJ G 04.06.09 at 4:44 pm

Google staff have just fucked with World Prince 1999 and they have to look for new job as google will disappear within few months, make no mistake about it, I have problem with banks and you all know whats happening to banks, visited SRI LANKA 2004 and you know what happened there, do you want the list, I am the real Prince and Google just fucked with me, I may not have any money at present , thats what god want me to learn, live among the poor! Google look for new job! clock is ticking. or come up with $300 million , just may god will let your company live?

42 RAJ 04.06.09 at 7:41 pm

RIP GOOGLE BY END OF 2009, BYE GOOGLE, SLEEP WELL, MAY BE, FUCK YOU GOOGLE, BURN IN HELL.

43 cadipo 04.10.09 at 3:11 am

you've ranked #1 for the query "f_ck google". congragulations. you did a great job. maybe.

44 RAJ G 04.11.09 at 10:29 am

Me again, Just to confirm that Google is going down, mission approved! RIP for Google is very soon.

45 Relax 04.11.09 at 2:34 pm

GOOGLE? What a **** is that?! :-D

46 RAJ G 04.12.09 at 6:40 am

Well guys, I have a bad news! Mission aborted. It is impossible to bring down the muti billion dollor google, well I guss bye bye for me NOW! I hope google call off their dogs or RIP Raj G SOON!

I not realy a WORLD PRINCE 1999! FAKE PRINCE MORE LIKE! So google call off your dogs!

47 5y 04.15.09 at 4:45 am

F U C K YOU GOOGLE!!!

48 steve 04.16.09 at 12:11 pm

FUCK GOOGLE use Dogpile.com

49 Mike 04.17.09 at 7:23 pm

Ya I clicked by mistake my own adsense ad 2 fricken times and then I looked one day I had 60 hits on a 3 cent pay one day WHY! who knows, Then when the assholes have to pay a couple hundred dollars , they say I'm a danger to their customers WHO is ME! and shut me down. 400 hundred PLUS pages that took months to do shot to hell. FUCK GOOGLE rot in hell. THX needed to say that.

MIKE

50 Craig 04.24.09 at 4:40 am

Fuck Google! Fuck 'em every which way! Same click fraud shit happended to me….they are greedy, scamming shits! Karma is karma fuckers and your is coming!
Thanks for the vent, love your blog!
Peace.

51 GoogleTerminator 04.26.09 at 5:48 pm

YES FUCK AND KILL GOOGLE. THIS IS THE BIGGESTED LEAGLISED MAFIA ON THE PLANET. WHEN YOU ADD ADSENSE AND YOU ARE ABOUT TO GET PAID, THE LET YOU KNOW THAT YOUR SITE IS ..DANGEROUSE.. TO THEIR CLIENTS…AND TERMINATE YOUR ACCOUNT. FK GOOGLE, AND KILL IT. AND ALSO EBAY HAS TO BE DESTROYED AND TERMINATED. ITS ONE AND THE SAME.

52 witchcraft 04.28.09 at 8:34 pm

When someone wants their web search results removed from fucking google then fucking google should do it! Fuck you and fuck off google!

53 alx 05.01.09 at 12:32 pm

Yeaah!!

FUCK GOOGLE!!

I HATE THEM.

54 lewisyee123 05.05.09 at 8:43 am

Fucking Google Now i know it is fucking google and you are asio a fucking google Dear Pierre he is a susado man he is a ahbunana man he is fucking google who create a fucking google website!!!!!!!!!!!! do you know who is fucking google.

55 Usman 05.05.09 at 11:32 am

Fuck You All !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Main teri maa nu gashti haney chood aauga! sale kanjer ki olaad Google is the BEST!!!!!!!!

56 google motherfucker 05.07.09 at 10:55 pm

FUCK YOU GOOGLE!

You filter my illegal searches.

Don't you have anything beter to do.

Go FUCK YOURSELF you STUPID ASS MORON!

57 I SHIT ON GOOGLE's FACE!! 05.10.09 at 1:23 am

FUCK YOU GOOGLE WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH YOUR STOOOOPID FUCKING SEARCH ENGINE THAT DOESNT EVEN GIVE ME ANY RELEVANT RESULTS, GO TAKE YOUR ADDS AND SHOVE THEM UP YOUR HAIRY GoOGlLY ASS BECAUSE YOUR GONNA GET WHATS COMING TO YOU, YOU PISSED ME OFF AND NO ONE GETS AWAY WITH THAT, HAVE FUN BECOMING THE WORST RATED WEBSITE IN HISTORY BECAUSE NOW YOU WILL RAPIDLY FALL DOWN THE CHARTS, I WILL ENSURE IT!!! I WONT SLEEP UNTIL YOU DIE GOOGLE!!

58 The Watcher 05.12.09 at 6:03 pm

Google can smoke a turd.

59 Billy Samford 05.14.09 at 1:49 pm

Too be honest – I'm a bigger fan of Dogpile than Google. They support charitable causes and work with all independent search providers to give a good mix of results.

People are too lazy when it comes to search and want it all to be laid out for them in one engine. Problem is, Google, MSN and Yahoo all pick what shows up where.

Research is meant to be RESEARCH – so look around for solid results.

BTW – Dogpile.com just launched a new site called http://www.DoGreatGood.com – and their donating a portion of there revenue to Petfinder and the ASPCA.

Great that theres a way we can help dog adoption programs at no cost.

60 DradBozzle 05.14.09 at 11:53 pm

fuck you and fuck google. fuck your hits and fuck your customers.

I feel like the crazy lawyer in that movie with george clooney…

zygote, nose army! jigsaw….

w0000000h000000

61 govuser 05.22.09 at 7:14 pm

The chances of a paid goverment employee making a comment on this page is quite high. if any comment on this page seems out of wack, dont take it at face value, Mister sam is always watching, hes in every crook and crannie of our world, even now when i am typing this they are recording my text format. interesting eh.

62 Fuckle 06.05.09 at 8:28 pm

Lol at teh coments.
Fuck G00GLE !!! Use Dogpile.com peepls !

63 TINA 06.06.09 at 10:35 am

FUCK GOOGLE I HATE THEIR GUTS. THEY RIPPED ME OFF THEY TRIED TO CHARGE MY ACCOUNT FOR A GOOGLE TOOL KIT THAT I NEVER GOT AND WHEN I CALLED THEIR STOOOOOOPID ASSES THEY TELL ME I CAN'T GET THE MONEY BACK FOR SHIPPING ON A PRODUCT I NEVER GOT. FUCK GOOGLE I HATE THEM I WISH THEY WOULD JUST FALL SO LOW THAT THEIR COMPANY GOES OUT OF BUSINESS AND THEY ARE REDUCED TO TAKING DONATIONS TO KEEP THEIR SITE RUNNING I HATE GOOGLE FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKKKK GGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOGGGGGGGGGGGLLLLLLLLEEEEE
THEY CAN KISS MY ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

64 google hater 06.06.09 at 1:43 pm

Fuck google. Some one should destroy the megaplex and end thier scams!

65 elijah 06.20.09 at 7:58 am

fuck google they suck i have been trying very hard to get my site listed on the cheap ( free ) and there really isn't any way i can do it they won't allow it so FUCK GOOGLE UNTIL THEIR BEHIND STARTS FARTING!!!

66 GoogleStealAdsenseMoney 06.21.09 at 6:58 pm

Google steal adsense money $20-$30 and it happens at the end of each month a week before the payment day. At first i thought it was me but last night i fond out!Holly shit…. It's google that steal my adsense money. There is no click fraud, no scripting, no nothing. I run an honest website with Google adsense in each page! We must ban Google especially super affiliates. They play with us with their algorithm BS and think that we don't find out! I sent a bounch of hate tweets to Google on twitter last night. I am gathering doc. to bring Google down to its knees. GOOGLE IS A BIG FUCKING THEIVE! Many wrote me back that Google stole their$200 , $50, $100! We ALL MUST BAN GOOGLE! yeah FUCK GOOGLE! FUCK THAT STUPID MATT CUTS!

67 fake 06.25.09 at 8:11 pm

i found this site by searching "fuck you google" on google. *milk sqirts out nose*

68 jam 06.29.09 at 10:47 am

Fuck GOOGLE! The most Stupid and inaccurate search engine in this planet. if you want to get ripped use google!(most of the search results contain some kind of Trojan or have nothing to do with the search) and all their ads are spam or non trusted web sites.Great!! is there one good thing that google can do?(except having our privacy information?)Something that Quintura or Yahoo can't?lol Fuck it!

69 JAMES 07.01.09 at 4:38 am

The Man who helped Google is DEAD – The man behind Google!

Professor Rajeev Motwani: computer scientist, investor and The man behind Google! One of the many factors that has made Silicon Valley in California the pre-eminent location for technology companies is the close relationship between businesses, sources of venture capital and nearby universities.

This linkage is exemplified in the career of Rajeev Motwani, who was a professor of computer science at Stanford University, an investor and adviser to leading venture capital firms including Sequoia Capital, and a mentor for many of the students who would come to Stanford, develop a new technology or a business idea and seek advice and support to get their company off the ground

The most important of the many businesses he helped in this way is the Google search engine. Motwani was mentor and adviser to the Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page when they were graduate students at Stanford, helping them to refine their ideas and develop their business.

He co-authored a key paper with Brin and Page, which described their innovative approach to finding relevant web pages when carrying out a search, offered strategic and technical support as the company grew and continued to work with Google as a member of the company’s technical advisory council.

Rajeev Motwani was born in the northern Indian city of Jammu. His father was in the Indian Army and the family moved around the country, but he was educated at St Columba’s School in Delhi. Although he showed an interest in and aptitude for mathematics, his parents were concerned about the career prospects for mathematicians, and he was persuaded to study computer science at university, obtaining a bachelor of technology degree in 1983 from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in Uttar Pradesh.

At university he was surprised to find that much of computer science is mathematically based and that the study of the algorithms that underpin computer programming is in effect a branch of advanced mathematics. Much of his later work in areas such as search, data mining, computational drug design and data streaming services reflected his mathematical predisposition.

Motwani left India in 1983 and moved to California, working towards a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, under Professor Richard Karp. He obtained his doctorate in 1998 for a thesis on probabilistic analysis of matching and network flow algorithms, and took up an academic position at Stanford University, where he was Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Computer Science Department at the time of his death.

Motwani was always sympathetic to the Silicon Valley ethic of business development and the start-up culture, and offered advice and support to many students who were attempting to build companies on the basis of their academic work and interests. As director of graduate studies he came in contact with students who asked him for advice on how to turn their ideas into businesses. So he was in a good position to offer help and support to Brin and Page, two graduate mathematicians who sought his advice and insight over their attempt to find a mathematical solution to the problem of ranking large numbers of weighted items in a data set and its application to searching the world wide web.

While at Stanford Motwani was married to Asha Jadeja, a fellow doctoral student, who had originally trained as a civil engineer and urban planner.

Other notable successes for Motwani included PayPal and Stumbleupon, and he was a special adviser to prominent venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and August Capital. In 2000 Motwani and his wife founded a small venture capital firm, Dot Edu Ventures, to invest in technology businesses.

Motwani was a charter member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), the worldwide organisation of entrepreneurs and professionals with roots in the Indus region, and also sat on the board of the Business Association of Stanford Engineering Students.

In addition to his business activities within the Silicon Valley community Motwani was an active and engaged academic computer scientist, sitting on the board of the non-profit International Computer Science Institute and on the editorial boards of several journals as well as the programme committees of leading computing conferences. His work ranged widely and included breakthroughs in search and information retrieval, security and robotics and he held several technology-related patents.

In 2001 he was one of the recipients of the Gödel Prize, one the highest honours in computer science, for work in the area of randomised algorithms, a computational technique that allows some aspects of the solution to large-scale problems to be determined by the careful use of random data. He was a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and received a Distinguished Alumnus award from ITT in 2006.

Motwani wrote many academic papers in his field and co-authored the textbook Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation in 2000. His book Randomized Algorithms was published in 1995 and he was working on another title, Approximation Algorithms, when he died.

Motwani is survived by his wife, Asha Jadeja, and their two daughters.

Professor Rajeev Motwani, computer scientist, investor and business adviser to Silicon Valley technology companies, was born on March 26, 1962. He was found dead in the swimming pool at his home in Atherton, California, on June 5, 2009, aged 47

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