yeah...why am I not surprised?
Yeah man!, the ones that are informed on this stuff are the ones that's not surprised about it
yeah...why am I not surprised?
Also, didn't anyone ever notice how Google came out of no where and before you knew it, it was the major search engine on the web? I was curious about it but never looked in to it, but I'm glad I know the things about Google now that I do, it's helped change my ways for sure
Basically, Google was the first to base searches and ranking on how many other sites were linked to yours, which was ground breaking. Now they are so big, it's impossible to compete against.
But hey, you have credit cards right? Every time you spend money, the card provider knows how much and where, and most likely what. They have been gathering that sort of marketing information for decades.
Besides which, Google doesn't want all this information so they can take over the world and turn us all into zombies to invade the neighbouring planet. It's about marketing. The more information they have on who is searching what and why, the more market share of advertising they have. And it's targeted advertising.
As you know we have a shop. We could put an ad in the paper. We know what the circulation is, but how do I know anyone even reads the ad? I don't. we can put flyers in letterboxes, I know where they are going, but they could be getting binned. If we run a Google adwords campaign, we can target people that are searching for our product. And we only pay Google if they are clicking on the link to our site.
It's about making money for advertising. On a large scale. We are all small scale, they don't really give a shit what we are doing individually.
The government already knows everything about you. Where your accounts are, how much you get paid, driving record, education record, medical record.
The big corporations want to make big money, not control what you do. They want to influence where you spend your cash. The rest of it they couldn't give two shits about.
nicely said AVC.
you guys are just being silly IMO.
God that is creepy...
Is Google the only company that can create this massive power to be stolen and used against us? Probably not.