Google Evil Eye

Need vs Want; I guess that is the real ? to be answered by our use of the internet.
Thinking it would help, I used to be very cautious about what information I gave out, but that became irrelevant when Google, started putting my address, phone number and a map to my home in my Googled name search results in 2002.
"Fear is the mind killer!" F. Herbert

clipped from www.slate.com Does the Big G know too much about us? I have not kept a journal. Yet, like many people, I do have a place where I regularly confide my fears, insecurities, and dreams: Google is always willing to listen—and to cough up details about high-school classmates. Gmail exists in a murky privacy area. Google servers "read" your e-mail to place the ads Gmail may not be a protected communication in the same way that a letter sent through the postal service is When I called Daniel Brandt, Google's most persistent and dedicated critic, runs a site called Google Watch, Brandt created a site called Scroogle, which allows you to query Google anonymously and returns search results without ads or other Google ad-ons. So what? you might ask. Think back to the supposedly anonymous search logs released by AOL last year, which were quickly linked to individual users.