Google Acquires Picasa, Improves Blogging Tools

clandestine writes "It appears that our lovable search engine has again expanded its horizons - the internet wasn't enough; now you can search and organize your own pictures. I don't know about you, but I use Google for nearly everything; heck, I found links about their acquisition of Picasa through Google News! Any slashdotters going to benefit from this tech, or already do? And yes, the addition of Picasa to their arsenal is a couple of days old, but they just started linking them on the homepage today."

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So let's see...

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

- When I Google my name, I can see most of what I've been doing publicly on the net for the last 10+ years. Fair enough, I had no privacy expectation, but still scary to realize I actually said some pretty lame things I didn't remember.

- Google has indexed 20 years worth of newsgroups. Again, I can't say I'm too pleased with some of the stuff I posted once (think "alt.binary."). But okay...

- Google now "offers" 1G worth of email storage, and warns that they "may" use their searching technology on it. Now they don't even make the effort of ferreting info about you anymore, they plain and simply lure you into giving it to them

- And now the personal information releasing trap widens with this new photo storage thing. hmmm...

What next? in 5 years maybe I'll be able to google my name and see a private mail of mine saying "hey look at that d!rty picture of the secretary on my picasa account! (don't tell anyone about this, hey...)" with a nice link to my private picasa pic? Thanks but no thanks.

I must say, google is cool, has cool technology and all, but their current trend of establishing 1984-ish new services and their tradition of extreme secrecy are starting to really disquiet and annoy me.