Thursday, June 29, 2006

I am afraid of Google

Do you trust Google or does it scare you. It's beginning to scare me. Today they launched Google Checkout™, and now they will know what I buy too, where I spend my money and how much. They already know what I search for with Google, with whom I correspond and what I correspond thanks to Gmail and Google Talk. They know who are my friends and what kind of interests I have thanks to orkut. They have my blog, so they know what goes on in my life, what I think.
Seriously, does any one person that you know, know all this about you? I doubt. You may think that it's a computer system; no human would make sense of it. But I am telling you. There is more data about you then you think. And with hardware becoming cheaper coupled with algorithms becoming smarter, you will be shocked and terrified with the kind of accurate profile the computers can generate of you. And the thing is the data that google has is more genuine then other sites.
They have this brilliant tactic of providing their services through invites only, which reduces the number of bogus accounts by like a zillion!
So if tomorrow someone at Google decides that they want to know everything about me than they could just run some smart queries and programs (which I am sure they have thanks to the geniuses that they hire) and tada! They have it on their screen!
SaintofSpeed loves Mischa Barton wallpapers, like to read Calvin and Hobbes, is currently sceptical of Google, recently received an email from his girlfriend setting up a date this friday.

So people ... Be afraid, very afraid!!!

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