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I normally don't stay logged into Google anyway when I'm not using one of their web based services (Calendar, Docs, Gmail web site), so I'm not sure it would be able to tie into my Google+ details anyway. But all the same, I've started changing my default search engine to Yahoo.

"the Ferret King's search practices.."

Huh?

I've noticed that Google search results are becoming less and less relevant to my needs, over the past 2-3 years. It used to be that Google had an uncanny ability to find what I was looking for. Now it causes me more lost time and misdirection than ever before.

It is literally faster for me to go to the mall and shop for items in a dozen stores, than to search on Google. Don't believe me? Try searching for an electric blanket with a 100% cotton or 100% wool covering. The search will give a half MILLION hits (45,000 if you put the phrase in quotes)... and plenty of advertisers pretending to have the item as well, and yet... there seems to be no actual source for such a product in the USA. I spent hours looking at hits.

Google is increasingly a waste of time.

This post has been edited by TeaEarleGreyHot: 12 January 2012 - 10:01 AM

Chezapeak, on 12 January 2012 - 09:30 AM, said:

yes ... the Ferret King . . . from that manga, anime series about that guy with the power and weapon and things . . . . and ....

. . .

no really . . "Ferret King" ???

color me bewildered

spimster, on 12 January 2012 - 10:02 AM, said:

Would think weasel king would be better: who weasels there way on to your computer more insidiously than google? who weasels there way into your personal info more than google?

'Do no evil' has been translated into 'do no evil when we're forced to'

I suggest schmidt put his mouth were he lives and see how long he holds his 'opinion': his location to be broadcast real-time, 24/7. His family's locations as well. A detailed listing of his actions, photos, emails, web pages visited and purchases. Oh what about his privacy? This the same ---- that said there is no privacy

I fail to see the controversy. If you share a post, picture, or other content publicly on Google+ (or any other social network), what's the problem with someone finding it through a search? Also, unless you leave your Google account logged in on random computers for some reason, other people can't search for private postings, pictures, etc. shared with you. This is pretty much what Google Desktop used to do by integrating your computer contents into the same page as your search results, except this integrates you & your friends' Google+ content into the same page as your search results. Either way, these personalized search results aren't public...

hagen, on 12 January 2012 - 11:26 AM, said:

Could you please list all of the this "evil" that Google has done? I mean, like actual verifiable things, not speculative paranoid BS. If you use all of Apple's online services, they have about as much information as Google. If you purchase content from iTunes, Apple ends with MORE information than Google since they actually know what types of things you've bought.

Exactly when did Google start broadcasting a user's location, email, web history and purchase history over the internet? I must have missed that news announcement. Weird how no news organization seems to have picked up on that story either. Ever used Facebook? People willingly broadcast that personal information all the time there.