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Google Becoming an Extension of your Mind
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 19965441:MV8xOTI3MzQ1XzMyMjc2MDUxXzE2RDJFMjdG] [quote:phocuss:MV8xOTI3MzQ1XzM4RDlFMzU=] It's time to think of Google as much more than just a search engine, and that should both excite and spook you. Search remains critical to the company's financial and technological future, but Google also is using the search business' cash to transform itself into something much broader than just a place to point your browser when asking for directions on the Internet. What it's now becoming is an extension of your mind, an omnipresent digital assistant that figures out what you need and supplies it before you even realize you need it. Exciting or creepy? For a Google-augmented life, you must grant the Googlebot unprecedented privileges to monitor your personal information and behavior. What medicine do you take? What ads did you just glance at while walking by the bus stop? What's your credit card number? And as Google works to integrate social data into its services, you'll have to decide how much you'll share with your contacts' Google accounts -- and the best way to ask them to share their data with your Google account. Good or bad what do you think? Read more here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-57470853-2/how-google-is-becoming-an-extension-of-your-mind/ [/quote] well good, that works both ways ya know all things do every road that leads to Rome leads the hell away from it as well once they hook up to us we're essentially locked into them with equal measure that's just how it works and if you know how it does you're IN [/quote]
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It's time to think of Google as much more than just a search engine, and that should both excite and spook you.
Search remains critical to the company's financial and technological future, but Google also is using the search business' cash to transform itself into something much broader than just a place to point your browser when asking for directions on the Internet.
What it's now becoming is an extension of your mind, an omnipresent digital assistant that figures out what you need and supplies it before you even realize you need it.
Exciting or creepy?
For a Google-augmented life, you must grant the Googlebot unprecedented privileges to monitor your personal information and behavior. What medicine do you take? What ads did you just glance at while walking by the bus stop? What's your credit card number? And as Google works to integrate social data into its services, you'll have to decide how much you'll share with your contacts' Google accounts -- and the best way to ask them to share their data with your Google account.
Good or bad what do you think? Read more here:
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