17.04.2007 | 08:01
Talking about digital identity
Google reads my emails, Google knows who visits my websites, Google knows how much I earn with my websites, Google knows what are my interests,…
It might sounds obvisous but Google becoming Evil is not something I can feel on the web (or not enough), would it be too late anyway ?
Google reads my emails == I’m using gmail
Google knows who visits my websites == nobody would visit them if it wasn’t for Google
Google knows how much I earn with my websites == I’m an Adsense customer
Google knows what are my interests == I’m using Google web search
In all cases you have a choice.
Is knowledge evil or what you do with it ?
hehe…
“in all cases you have a choice”
This ain’t totally true… at the beginning you make the choice to use the tool that provides the best and most relevant result (ie. the best one) but then at some point when this tool has become bigger and more successful you end up using it because ot has become big enough to provide features that only one in a monopol situation can provide and because everybody uses it…. is not that what Microsoft was doing ? and Microsoft is evil as we all know…
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