MatthewHSE - 4:05 pm on Mar 7, 2006 (gmt 0)

<sarcasm> I can't believe it. This is so exciting. I can't wait to let Google crawl all my personal documents, maybe even some private ones, and all my e-mail and contacts, and store it all for me. How handy! Maybe soon I'll even be able to get relevant AdWords ads in a convenient sidebar when I'm typing a letter in Word. Of course, the more transparent all this is to me, the better. It's not like I really want or need to know when my data is being sent to Google... </sarcasm>

Seriously speaking, it's no wonder they're putting up such a fight about the government wanting some of their search data. It's all a big PR stunt. With plans like these, they definitely need to make people think they're very privacy minded. (Which I don't believe for a second, except as it relates to protecting their bottom line.)