Google Privacy

Check out this funny video about Google Privacy on Dylan Fuller's blog.

I was thinking recently, if you use lots of Google services then they know:
- what you're email people (gmail)
- what you're searching for
- where you'll be and when (google calendar)
- how you'll get there (google maps)
- how much traffic you get (google analytics)
- how much money you make (google checkout)
- your main documents (google docs)

If Goggle offered to buy your startup then in due diligence you would ask THEM from information ;-).

Apparently internal project selection at Google is fully automated. I wonder if they will automate the company acquisition process soon?  You may get a mail saying:
"Your company dotbiz.net has been automatically chosen as an acquisition target by our algorithms.  To confirm you would like to sell your company for 3 squillion dollars, please follow this link."

Comments

[Dan]

Just imagine if they took over facebook, then they'd know all the people you'd ever known, where you knew them from, which school you went to, all the places you've ever worked, and all the people you've ever had 'it's complicated' relationships with too.

[Edward Ross]

Lets see how popular Google's social networking site Orkut becomes. Myspace, facebook and orkut are currently all in the Alex top 10 of global traffic rankings.