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Google Chief: If you care about your privacy you're a criminal
rheffera:
--- Quote from: Lupin on December 17, 2009, 01:24:52 AM ---Use Bing
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You. cant. be. serious. Ive tried using it. I found it to be a unfriendly; inaccurate and hard to use google wanna be.
And besides; i trust micro$oft even less than google.
Lupin:
--- Quote from: rheffera on December 28, 2009, 04:32:02 AM ---
--- Quote from: Lupin on December 17, 2009, 01:24:52 AM ---Use Bing
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You. cant. be. serious. Ive tried using it. I found it to be a unfriendly; inaccurate and hard to use google wanna be.
And besides; i trust micro$oft even less than google.
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142106/Mozilla_exec_suggests_Firefox_users_move_to_Bing_cites_Google_privacy_stance
Bing keeps your history for about 4 weeks. Google will keep it for 6 months. Which one will you use from a privacy standpoint?
rheffera:
Either one, because there is no such thing as privacy in today's world.
Onoz:
--- Quote from: Neco on December 17, 2009, 12:42:53 AM ---While I am certainly not trying to hold the register up any higher than it deserves.
The underlying point is the fact that a man in a position of significant power even made this statement. He has the power to make and change policies on what they sell, or how they cooperate with authorities, or anything else they may do with your search history, or personal e-mail correspondence, or whatever else they offer through services.
If those are his personal views, that's fine. But he appeared on a show, in the capacity of a person representing Google, and that is as good as saying "Google hath decreed". This is customer service / public relations 101 - you do NOT say shit like that to/about your customers. Now we aren't really customers of Google as much as we are "users" but the analogy is a close one.
Imagine if a world leader stood up and said this.. Or Bill Gates said this?
There would be a shit storm so fucking big.
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Then we come to this whole argument of users vs consumers,
*sighhh*
personally I just change my email about every month or two
register it from public ip with nonsense names like
"Hamster in the Rain"
I cant be without their services at the moment
Here's an interesting discussion though,
(click to show/hide)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2403121/posts
The real beef of the article is "HT Slight Paranoia 8 Million Reasons for Real Surveillance Oversight"
Aneroph:
--- Quote from: Lupin on December 17, 2009, 01:24:52 AM ---Use Bing
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Seconded. Bing is actually about 3 times faster than google anyways (Go ahead ping it) with better image searches and the same freaking internet results as google. This combined with the 4 week info hording policy makes Bing FAR superior. I'm not a Microsoft advocate, but as long as google has been around why was Bing able to vastly improve on the system in one try? To put it in perspective: Bing is to Google as Firefox is to Internet Explorer.
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