Quote Originally Posted by Borune View Post
i personally think that the capabilities are there, especially from a company like google, but i dont see what they would have to gain from it. it might be more convincing to me if they had something more than just 'and they get to know everything on the internet'
personally doesn't sound like too much of a feat... they pretty much already do that with targeted ads, recommended links/vids, etc

how bout you?
Mm. Well honestly I don't like the fact that my privacy would be invaded, but that's something that's going to happen no matter what I do. We're kind of unfortunate to be part of a generation where there is no way to keep anything private. Honestly I think that google may end up outsmarting itself.

There's several billion people that have access to the internet probably, and each of those has sites somewhere that have millions of bits of information on them. If google is really tryihng to collect all this data, they're going to have a heck of a time keeping track of it all. And if someone buys a new computer (unless they're keeping track of who buys computers, in which case if someone STEALS a computer) they're going to have to spend awhile trying to figure out who it is that actually has that computer and every single person that's used it and which bit of information actually goes with which person.

If a friend uses a computer and looks up something like PETA while the actual owner of the computer has no interest in saving animals then google has this data on them that is completely false. And unless the owner and the friend exchange information online confessing who was who at the time, google would have no way of correcting this if any of that made any kind of sense.