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I know we’ve already looked at this article a bit, but this is mainly about familiarizing ourselves with this tool.

Try to make more detailed observations about the text and the argument–that is what this tool is for.

The use of diction in the title of article is quite good, its an attention grabbing title that plays on everyones’ fear, that is their privacy being invaded, basicly this title appeals to pathos. The title has an effect of making readers read more about the “creepy” topic. Also, the title provides the audience the author’s personal view about the touchy subject, by the sound of the title “Google Doesn’t Know Where You Are (But It Has a Good Guess)” it clearly indicate that he is opposed to Google’s new service.

In this paragraph, Hansell uses a logo’s style of writing. It’s mostly informational to give the audience all of the background to the article. Hansell also explains that Google is not the only company trying to track people by their cell phones.

Hansell states his claim in this paragraph. The rest of his article is focused on that particular claim. If he hadn’t told his audience what he was going to talk about, then the rest of the essay wouldn’t have made sense.

It seems that Hansell uses parenthesis a lot in this paragraph and others in order to further back up his opinions without having to write out another complete sentence

I was very confused as to why Hansell would put “(My cheap Times-provided Samsung isn’t nearly smart enought to perform this trick)” after the first sentence of the paragraph. However, I realized that it made me laugh. The tone and language he uses in that particular sentece is very satirical. He is trying to connect to the audience, or rather, he is trying to gain their attention by using such a tone, thus, also establishing ethos.

As in other places in the article, Hansell uses the small anecdote about his phone “[insisting] [he] had arrived in New York” to make himself more identifiable to the audience. He uses humor from the anecdote as well as his own personal experience with the subject on which he is writing to help establish his ethos.

It seems that Hansell wants to have the motive to like Google’s idea, but it is not the greatest for getting directions.

It’s a short paragraph but it gives off a lot of information. For one, the information he is telling us is fresh (meaning recent). Obviously he knows that the people (readers) want the newest bit of information, just like they want the newest phone or to have seen the newest episode of Heroes. After that gives his information some ethos by stating how he talked to basically the man in charge of the whole project, which also gives him ethos getting the best information for his work. Finally he talks about “interesting” things he learned. Making us (the readers) ask “What information?” which hooks us like fish on a rod into reading the rest!

Basically he’s pointing out that Google is really open about how they track you, but they are probably only open about it because if they aren’t then that makes them seem like they have something to hide, but Mr. Lee made sure to point out that they don’t have your personal information. Though the author Saul Hansel still puts Google in a creepy position, literally, by putting the Google and creepy near each other it makes Google have a bad vibe.

His talk of “loopholes” “the catch” “query” “secret” makes Google seem like the Italian Mafia or a cars salesman. Not the good ol’ honest or trust worthy people we‘d like to think they were. As if they’re watching your every move so they can hook you for more money- pure evil! This makes us question whether we should use this feature of our phone, or Google at all. Since now we know that Google may not know WHO we are, but they know WHERE we are and are logging us down. Which is in fact the whole point of this story- creepy. He does very well at making Google look creepy in this paragraph.

This paragraph addresses a common misconception: our favorite online sites are out there to help people, not make money. Well, I’ll remind you all Google is a company, so they’re always looking for ways to make money besides through ads and “renting” links through their site. If they have a brilliant idea like the Android system, why wouldn’t they try to make a couple bucks?

This is an engenius idea; it reminds me of how people pinpoint earthquakes based on their magnitudes at three different places and the actual magnitude. It could be honed and become more accurate, but this way it’s helpful without seeming stalker-like.

The passage mainly calls upon the power of Pathos, using diction and reasoning to call upon the shock and dismay of the audience. Words like “nasty”, “creepy”, and “privacy” make the audience feel unsettled and fearful about this strange, intruding technology. A good argument based mainly upon Pathos.

The word choices he has through out this paragraph and the whole article is one that gives off an almost eery feel. Words such as “secret” and “loophole” help to make this effective. I think it’s also an ingenious idea to help make someone elses life easier while helping the company.

This is a great comment. I never thought of that. She did seem rather trusting in Google with out a reason to, but than again, I didn’t read her other article. Moreover, this could possible lower her ethos. It makes her seem that she is not knowledgeable in what she is talking about, leaving her audience to wonder if she is sure about her topic now. Though, this lack of confidence in her from her audience isn’t extremely significant because she uses some examples of her experience with Google’s gaget.

The sentence he crossed out near the end was interesting because if he wanted for everyone not to see what had been previously written why not just delete it? why write it, corss it out, and decide to keep it in. I think he wanted everyone reading this to see that his original comment abou tbeing able to trace your indentification back to you through a login of an email account was still worth saying but he didnt feel it was justified now that the PR man had rebutted his statement.

I agree with Alix, he is making this statement to strengthen his point on the subject. It states what is in the title, Google doesn;t know where you are.

I think that this is a cool idea by Google, and that there isnt much harm to it. But the way the author uses this information to strengthen the argument of how Google knows who you are and where you are is great.