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Google CEO — Take Your Data and Run

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the web-two-point-oh-no-there-goes-our-monopoly dept.

BobB writes to tell us that Google is promising to make the data they store for end users more portable and is urging other companies to do the same. From the article: "Making it simple for users to walk away from a Google service with which they are unhappy keeps the company honest and on its toes, and Google competitors should embrace this data portability principle, Eric Schmidt said at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco."

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  1. taken by legallyillegal · · Score: 1, Funny

    i'll take this post and run

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    ?giS
  2. Go on, take the money and run by hoy74 · · Score: 2, Funny

    doot doot doot

  3. Moo by Chacham · · Score: 3, Funny

    John Doe Vs Mr. Google Man:

    Judge: John Doe, what is your claim against the defendant?

    John Doe: Mr Google Man said my data would be portable. When i asked him where my data was, he said "search me".

    Judge: Mr. Google Man, did you indeed say "search me".

    Mr. Google Man: Yes sir, i did.

    Judge: And why? Did you not have the data in a portable fashion?

    Mr. Google Man: Yes, i did. When i said "search me", i mean to go to the google home page, and search for it.

    Judge: And why should he search for it?

    Mr. Google Man: The new privatedata.google.com (beta) has easy access to everyone's private information, and he could access it more easily there than anywhere else.

    Judge: Do you mean to say that people's private data, for example, mine, is easily availabe?

    Mr. Google Man: Yes sir. The Google Man can!

    John Doe: I thought the it was the Candy Man that can, er could, can could, yes could.

    Judge: The Candy Man was arrested a few years ago for inappropriate relations with a child.

    Mr. Google Man: John Doe is the Candy Man.

    Judge: Is he now?

    Mr. Google Man: Yes sir. A simple search on gimmethegoodsonmyneighbor.google.com (beta) will show that during the investigation most blogs thought he was him.

    Judge: Blogs??

    Mr. Google Man: You're honor, i move that we drop this case. Jusst like you dropped marijuana right before you came on the bench.

    Judge: Strike that from the record!

    Judge: Motion to Dismiss accepted. John Doe will pay the court costs.

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    Have you read my journal today?
  4. Re:for the "omg you google fanboys" people by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    So you're saying that what's good for the customer is good for the company? What a strange concept; you must be full of shit.

  5. Can't be the only one by QuantumFTL · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can't be the only person on here that thought that Google's CEO was going to run off with our data or something from the title...

  6. Re:Wonder if they were thinking of Flickr. by jeffehobbs · · Score: 2, Funny

    There's even a perl module for it, Net::Flickr::Backup.

    Yeah, I don't know why my mom couldn't find that.

    ~jeff