Google starting to get a bit too invasive for comfort?

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » June 22, 2006, 3:03 pm

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2 ... X1K0000535

Anyone else starting to be a bit uncomfortable that those google toolbars and other programs are coming in bundled with just about everything you download?

Now people that don't pay attention will have all of their files indexed by google, stored on the google servers and just waiting someone with malicious intent to start snooping through stuff.

Mr Bacon · Post by **Mr Bacon** » June 22, 2006, 3:23 pm

No. If you're dumb enough to not deselect the checkbox during install, then you deserve anything that gets onto your computer.

Furthermore, your microsoft propaganda is harmless. Google is good, google is great, we surrender our will as of this date.

noel · Post by **noel** » June 22, 2006, 3:39 pm

DON'T BE EVIL!

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » June 22, 2006, 3:42 pm

Actually that blog isn't from Microsoft, it's a ZiffDavis effort (industry news magazines/websites).

This is the blog that pertains to Microsoft. Foley's usually pretty neutral when posting news about teh MS, wether good or bad. She also mostly covers the business side of MS, not the entertainment/Xbox/MSN side.

They used to have a Google Watch but I guess Google didn't really generate enough content that wasn't covered by other blogs to make it worth keeping.

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » June 22, 2006, 3:42 pm

Actually scratch that last part...

http://googlewatch.eweek.com/watch/google/default.aspx

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » June 22, 2006, 3:47 pm

noel wrote:DON'T BE EVIL!

I hear that they replaced this motto with the theme song from The Apprentice.