Your future

[andrewducker]

(from yesterday's NY Times - opinion page).

Comments

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

It is starting to feel like google is taking over the world. They are launching new services at a phenominal rate. Google chat, Gmail, Froogle, etc., etc. Now it looks like they are preparing to launch Google purchases, which will no doubt link into Froogle with links to vendors who accept Google Wallet.

[themongkey.livejournal.com]

I just hope they use Google Loobe^TM when they inevitably bend us all over...

[sneakingyoda.livejournal.com]

Spot on.

I still like google and use it to an unhealthy extent.

[andrewducker]

Oh, me too. It's my main search engine and my secondary RSS reader.

From Axandra weekly search engine facts

[garthmyl.livejournal.com]

This is probably only the first step in Google's and Sun's battle against Microsoft. Google wants to win more market share on the desktop of computer users and it wants to move computer applications from the desktop to the Internet....

What does this mean to you?

It seems that many of Google's recent "free" applications mainly serve the purpose of gathering more data about you for Google so that Google can monetize that information for targeted ads.

If you use many different Google services, you share a lot of information with Google. It's up to you to decide if you're willing to exchange private information for "free" software and services.

This distribution partnership is probably only the start. It's likely that we can expect a lot more from this alliance between these two online giants.

Re: From Axandra weekly search engine facts

[andrewducker]

It seems that many of Google's recent "free" applications mainly serve the purpose of gathering more data about you for Google so that Google can monetize that information for targeted ads.

Well, as the saying goes, d'uh! Why else would they be doing it?

Personally I want targetted ads. Every time I go to Amazon it says "You may like these 5 books." and I think "Oh my God Yes! If only I had the money!"