i've already said this - www.wheels/gooble.htm and i'm certainly not the only person to notice it...
Professor Hermann Maurer, chairman of Graz University's Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media in Austria is in New Zealand saying so right now:
"Google knows just about everything about you. google is so good at collecting information it violates data protection laws in many countries, including new zealand.
Around 61 billion internet searches are conducted on google each month.In the United States, on average 57 per cent of searches are conducted with Google, and up to 95 per cent of internet users use Google sometimes.
Speaking at Auckland University's Business School Professor Maurer said Google's search engine were not the problem as such, but rather the way they linked the up to 50 Google applications. He said the United States based company had teams of people and software constantly analysing content, including what is in Gmail.
"Its not the search engine as such, it's the fact that they can put together lots of information from various services. It is from this that they have lots of information about you."
People did not need to even use Google products to give themselves away.
A product, Google Analytics, is installed on internet service providers (ISPs) and everyone who uses them is recognised and the information is passed onto Google.
In his study they had surveyed 300,000 ISPs, and 83 percent of them had Analytics.
It records every action a user takes and makes it available to the ISP who can know what their customers are doing.
"It is a beautiful piece of software. It has only one little hitch and this information is passed onto Google," Professor Maurer said.
Google also has a new browser, Google Chrome, that sends every URL or internet page visited to Google.
He said it was not just information on individuals Google kept, but it also had incredible details on companies. It often knew more about the fate of a company than any of its shareholders could ever know. It was in a unique position to know which companies were worth buying and which were not.
"Google's open aim is to know everything there is to know on Earth," his report said.
"It cannot be tolerated that a private company has that much power: it can extort, control, and dominate the world at will."
As well as BLOGGER and their huge search engine, google also has dozens of other ways to spy on us... including: Chrome Browser, Earth, Gmail, and Picasa
Yes, google own this blog - right now google are pissing on my head - and yours too!
