What happens if Google chooses to be malicious? Do we suddenly get msn.com coming up as phishing? In other words, why does a company so powerful get to basically censor us from viewing sites (even though it's turned off by default)?
Assuming the "we do no evil"...
Another thought, Google has the power to store this history and basically create some sort of metric to determine how clued in you are to internet use. For example, by simply computing the average pagerank of sites you visit, you might possibly determine that a user goes to well establilshed sites and is therefore less likely to become a phishing target. How does this help Google? I don't know...
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What happens if Google chooses to be malicious? Do we suddenly get msn.com coming up as phishing? In other words, why does a company so powerful get to basically censor us from viewing sites (even though it's turned off by default)? Assuming the "we do no evil"... Another thought, Google has the power to store this history and basically create some sort of metric to determine how clued in you are to internet use. For example, by simply computing the average pagerank of sites you visit, you might possibly determine that a user goes to well establilshed sites and is therefore less likely to become a phishing target. How does this help Google? I don't know...