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Here is a bit from an article on TechCrunch Link

So what’s our straightforward definition of the ideal search engine? Your best friend with instant access to all the world’s facts and a photographic memory of everything you’ve seen and know. That search engine could tailor answers to you based on your preferences, your existing knowledge and the best available information; it could ask for clarification and present the answers in whatever setting or media worked best. That ideal search engine could have easily and elegantly quenched my withdrawal and fueled my addiction on Saturday. I’m very proud that Google in its first 10 years has changed expectations around information and how quickly and easily it should be able to be retrieved. But I’m even more excited about what Google search can achieve in the future.

A quote from Marissa Mayer. “The photographic memory of everything i’ve seen and know” is very disturbing. With
1 ) g-mail – they know what i’m doing, what i did, who my friends are.
2 ) chrome – they know what i do on the internet
3 ) Jaiku – they know where i will be, where i’m going, where i went.
4 ) picasa – they know where I went and where I’m interested in going for travel
5 ) google docs – they know when and how i work
6 ) search – they know what I want
7 ) android -they know where i will be at all times
8 ) gears…. – they have access to my computer.

the picture gets even scarier. Doesn’t Google claim anonymity when it collects data? Doesn’t this vision contradict that? One of Google’s philosophy is “You can make money without doing evil”. A loop hole in that claim is who gets to decide what is evil?