RE: Follow-up to question about getting feedback from users

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

Stephen Arrants wondered:

[snip] 
> When are you going to complain about Google, for example, and their
> potentially insidious data collection policies Do you know what
> permissions you've given them, and what information about you they own
> as well as your own postings that they claim rights to? 

I don't know if any of y'all are in business on the web, but here's an article on what Stephen mentions:

http://www.associateprograms.com/articles/849/1/How-Googles-free-tools-make-you-pay/

Apparently their middle name is Conflict-of-Interest.

But they could be worse. They could be MS Bing, that actively makes up some of the info that the engine provides (see the GrokLaw website for that story ... but don't use Bing for the search...   :-)


 - Kevin




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