News around the web: Google's Creepy Social Search

[Erik]

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[rgdot]

A company that is solely focused on the web and a search leader too will create privacy affecting or privacy concerning apps. The best way to shield oneself is to not use a real name when participating online. As far as these concerns go google latitude is worse in my opinion.

 

[MBK]

Google Story:
With so many people on the likes of facebook and myspace, surely most social circles are indexed already??

 

[ET3D]

I love it that people are doing a serious review of a Sempron. And I was surprised to see that the lowest end chips had playable frame rates in modern games.