Hell Amazon used to track what websites you go to and jack up prices if they found you didn’t browse competing websites. Yet no one got mad about that.

Facebook stores all the data you delete, even if you delete your profile, facebook still has everything. 500 Million users and the site pulls more traffic that google, and holds much more sensitive information.

I don’t understand why people get into a fit about what Google stores when its provided for free. Storing info for ads the the only thing that makes the service available, its actually the only thing Google really makes money off of. Would you rather pay $50/month?

Go use bing or yahoo, oh yeah bing powers yahoo and bing collects the same data or uses Google ads. I’m not sure what the concern is or how this is “evil” in any way. Your searches are associated with your IP and no human ever lays eyes on it, this process is clearly laid out in the terms of use.

Define ‘data mining.’

I always have ads on the side of my e-mails that reflect what was mentioned in the e-mail. It’s one smal step up to using that data more than the single time to produce ads relevant(?) to my discussions.

However, try as much as I could, I got NO ads when the topic was sex. ;-)