Matt40k

Google has made money by making a slick search engine that displays ads. This has made good use of little bits of information. Nowadays people go to the extreme to hide these bits of information. Personally, if the US government wants to know what I Google for, fine, I don’t care. I’m sure they can come up with some interesting facts, but yet, I still don’t care. This will no doubt in the future affect my credit rating or limit my ability to visit the US, but again, I still don’t care. There are greater problems in the world.

I think everyone knows Google and the US government are basically the same guy. Let’s face it, the US doesn’t let encryption technology out the country without first vetting the country, ie they can come into the country and black-bag anyone who poses a “problem”.

I do like how ixquick, a meta search engine, is now “safe” and claims they don’t log IP, how they deal with abuse would be a nightmare. I have no doubt Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) will be blocking them soon, just a question of waiting for some big child porn case.

With all this said, look at http://www.aolstalker.com, explains why AOL uses Google now.