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Is Google Drive worse for privacy than iCloud, Skydrive, and Dropbox? | The Verge
"The real questions is what type of company would you trust with keeping your data in the cloud?
Microsoft is a software company, which sells it’s products and services to customers for money. You are the customer.
Apple is a hardware company, which sells it’s products and services to customers for money. You are the customer. You are the customer.
Dropbox is a web-service company , which sells it’s services to customers for money. You are the customer.
Google is an advertising company, which sells it’s services to customers for money. You are not the customer — advertisers are customers. You are Google’s product."
GoogleDrive  tos  storage  Dropbox  Apple  iCloud  Microsoft  Skydrive  advertising  businessModels 
5 weeks ago by petej
With Buzz, Google takes another giant step towards turning into Microsoft | Technology | The Observer
"It's breathtakingly crass and intrusive and takes astonishing liberties with your privacy, of which more in a moment. But what's even more significant is how it was introduced, and what that tells us about Google"
Google  GoogleBuzz  Microsoft  privacy  socialNetworking  Guardian  businessModels  competition  Facebook  socialMedia  Twitter  business 
february 2010 by petej
EOF - The Google Exposure | Linux Journal
"Think of advertising as oil and Google as one big emirate. What happens when the oil runs out?"
Google  search  advertising  businessModels 
february 2010 by petej
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