matt | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 03 2008 | google, news, internet, privacy, google chrome
yeah - i knew that 'i'm being watched' feeling was legit. is there a setting to only use Chrome in Incognito mode? :)
Quoted: Provided that users leave Chrome's auto-suggest feature on and have Google as their default search provider, Google will have access to any keystrokes that are typed into the browser's Omnibox, even before a user hits enter.
Quoted: What's more, Google has every intention of retaining some of that data even after it provides the promised suggestions. A Google representative told CNET News that the company plans to store about 2 percent of that data--and plans to store it along with the Internet Protocol address of the computer that typed it.
Quoted: (Update 11:45 a.m. PDT: Switching to Chrome's Incognito mode also switches off the auto-suggest features, the Google representative said.)
- matt | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 03 2008 | google, news, software, eula, licensing terms
good. that was a glaring copy/paste error - but it's still good to highlight that the original text came from their other services.
Quoted: Company says it is working to remove language that suggested it has a perpetual right to information entered in the browser. Read this blog post by Ina Fried on Webware.
ShareViewed: 2 Times - matt | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 03 2008 | news, google, software, privacy, face recognition, picasa
hmmmm....
Quoted: Face recognition technology coming to Google's Picasa Web Albums lets users find and name people in their photos. Also: a new beta of the Picasa editing software. Read this blog post by Stephen Shankland on Underexposed.
ShareViewed: 17 Times - matt | Shared With: Everyone - May 18 2007 | google, microsoft, news
Quoted: The fact that 409 people clicked on an ad that offers infection for those with virus-free PCs proves that people will click on just about anything.
ShareViewed: 3 Times - matt | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 22 2005 | the onion, google, news
Enjoy
Quoted: "Our users want the world to be as simple, clean, and accessible as the Google home page itself," said Google CEO Eric Schmidt at a press conference held in their corporate offices. "Soon, it will be."
The new project, dubbed Google Purge, will join such popular services as Google Images, Google News, and Google Maps, which catalogs the entire surface of the Earth using high-resolution satellites.
As a part of Purge's first phase, executives will destroy all copyrighted materials that cannot be searched by Google.
ShareViewed: 2 Times - matt | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 03 2005 | google, microsoft, steve ballmer, kai-fu lee, news
Quoted: "At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office," Lucovosky recounted, adding that Ballmer then launched into a tirade about Google CEO Eric Schmidt. "I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google." Schmidt previously worked for Sun Microsystems and was the CEO of Novell.
'Nuff said.
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