the omitted search results arent that big a deal, did any of you read through the new privacy policy that is more like a "we're gonna keep track of everything you do policy". I mean, I get what they're doing, and they may have good intentions behind it, but I have problems with people keeping track of stuff like details of how you used our service, such as your search queries.
telephony log information like your phone number, calling-party number, forwarding numbers, time and date of calls, duration of calls, SMS routing information and types of calls.
Internet protocol address.
device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL.
cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your Google Account.
You're misrepresenting it slightly. In most cases, they don't collect all that information. They store server logs, which, by definition, contain IP address, user agent, and the url of the page you accessed (which would contain search terms), but they've done that for years. Same goes for the phone information, which is obviously only when you ring them. With the "device event information", they can't get most of that stuff through a web browser anyway, so it's obviously only when using an application; in much the same way as, for example, Firefox sends that information to Mozilla in crash reports. And cookies are, of course, normal for most sites.
I don't really like their new privacy policy - they've made it to broad in their attempts to make it easy to understand, I'd prefer completely specific legal language which makes it crystal clear exactly what data they collect, when, and under what circumstances. But it's not particularly bad (and no worse than what they have at the moment).
