alwaysthinking - 6:39 am on Jul 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

They used to run search tests on their new search engine from their dorm rooms at Stanford back in 1998. That's how I first learned about Google, I kept seeing them in my former employer's visitor log ... actually I saw them even before back in 1997, but it was some weirder name than Google... (we were involved in some "bleeding-edge" technology - remember the battle of marketing superlatives in the Tech sectors back then... all the more to suck up your investment dollars)>

But Google was that name that caught my attention... as in "great, just what we need another search engine."

However, after seeing them a few weeks I finally gave their beta search engine a try myself, and "WOW!" This Google is GOOD!

Now after all their years of growth and most always featuring my "stuff" near the tops of appropriate search results, they completely delete my information from their data base.

"Where's the love & idealism we once shared in our youths, Google?" I bet if Larry or Segey discovered what was happening to me (moreover my information), some ears would be ringing at the Plex! Too bad they don't get in the trenches anymore... that's why Google has become just another soulless corporation IMHO.