Fading Away

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by fnkngrv

It can have its place for sure. Just not for me. At least with FB they can't analyze your entries and manipulate your inbox with crap they feel is relevant. I had a Google Voice number for a few years. I found that people that I had to deal with outside of my friends and family didn't like it. They wouldn't call it back half the time or wouldn't answer the calls

I think Eric Schmidt's comment to then CNBC's Maria Bartiromo on December 3, 2009 that "If you have something you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place" is THE most arrogant public statement ever made by the CEO of a U.S. based publicly traded company. I try my best to avoid searching on Google. I used to use Scroogle (a one person, IIRC, non profit with 9 (?) servers that would feed people's searches to Google through their IP address.....not the searcher's IP address). Google eventually found a way to block Scroogle. A few days before Scroogle shut down, they posted a link to DuckDuckGo. These days I usually use DuckDuckGo. Some physical addresses only appear on Google Maps. Google Street View also seems to be the best of such products. My house was the last one built in my neighborhood. Google Street View shows all of my neighbor's houses, but the view in my case was captured the day after they finished the foundation . And that was in 2008!