Google to Continue Storing Search Requests

isabotage3 writes "Although he was alarmed by AOL's haphazard release of its subscribers' online search requests, Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt said Wednesday the privacy concerns raised by that breach won't change his company's practice of storing the inquiries made by its users."

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Tagging System

[LS]

BTW, what happened to Slashdot's tagging system? Most of the stories don't have tags anymore, and the ones that do add no extra information - they are simply repeats of the words in the title, or non-words such as "fud, duh, wow", or worthless words such as "no, yes, maybe". Look at every story today and you'll see.

Re:Google == NSA == Data Mining

[Schraegstrichpunkt]

Google was created by Hoover back when the interent was just a couple of tubes.

Did you even bother to listen to what Ted Stevens had to say before you started repeating that meme?

His analogy is more-or-less correct. Internet connections have finite capacity, and once they're saturated, you more-or-less have to wait in line to use them (at least when everybody is using TCP).

There are much more deserving points of criticism, namely:

• He completely misunderstands how email works, and why email might be delayed ("I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?")
• He completely fails to mention that the people on both sides of the "tubes" that are causing the "ten movies [to be] streaming across" the tubes are paying for their use of the tubes. If the backbone providers can't afford to make the tubes big enough, then they should simply be charging more to use the tubes, not messing with Internet architecture.

Making fun of Ted Stevens for the "tubes" analogy just makes you look like a jackass whose understanding of how the Internet works is no better than that of the man you're making fun of.