Google to make travel search even more social:
In today’s upgrade Google has decided to throw social results into the main results page and dramatically widened the number of sources streaming in -- meaning that any content from a contact’s activity (such as sharing) or contributions to Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, Quora, blogs, news sites will stream in.
[video=youtube;4hAgiIXuNbs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hAgiIXuNbs[/video]
If it seems a little creepy, don't worry. Google says that they will not cross the "creepy" line: :)
"Google policy is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it...We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about." -- Eric Schmidt, Google CEO
13 years
"Google policy is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it...We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about." --
Do you remember what you have had for breakfast?
- google knows ;)
13 years
Do you remember what you have had for breakfast?
- google knows ;)
They have the technology for it. :)
Here is their technology that uses your computer's microphone to listen in on your TV:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/03/google_eavesdropping_software/
Their Google Maps Street View cars were also capturing everyone's WiFi traffic while driving around, so if you mentioned your breakfast on Facebook...
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/google-wifi-sniffing/
I'm not sure how Eric Schmidt still considers the company not-creepy... :)
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