Re: [tlug] MS vs Google

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Attila Kinali writes:
>
>  > Google tries to dominate us with data.
>  > They are locking up our data within their servers
>  > and take away the control of the data.
>
> Nonsense.  That would get them in heap big trouble, at least in the
> U.S.  Anyway, that's not Google's business model.
>
> What Google is doing is data mining, and selling what they find out to
> both sides of the market (ie, more accurate search results for users,
> and marketing info to vendors).
>
> This may be more scary than Echelon, and more scary even than Jedgar
> Hoover's famous files.  But then again, it may not.

Whether it is or not,  it is in that league.

> ...It's the correlations that only Google will have access to.
>   

And we all know Google can do no evil[1] but they seem conflicted about
others doing evil[2] ;)

Edward

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil
2. http://wonko.com/post/etherpad-source-includes-jsmin