Re:Eric Schmidt: “We Know Where You Are, We Know What You Like”
by anigbrowl on Tuesday September 07, 2010 @10:16PM
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Maybe Schmidt is actually risking the flak to make the point.
That's how I feel: if he makes some hand-waving denial then everyone will assume he's lying, so it's better to admit what the potential reach could be openly, and then address what the positives could be. I think their biggest problem from a service delivery standpoint is the difficulty of working with Google in a domain-specific mode. For a while they were experimenting with letting you up/downvote search results, and I was hoping that was going to converge with some of their set/collection tools so that you could build very specific filters (more than would be practical using regex) and save them for later use.
That's how I feel: if he makes some hand-waving denial then everyone will assume he's lying, so it's better to admit what the potential reach could be openly, and then address what the positives could be. I think their biggest problem from a service delivery standpoint is the difficulty of working with Google in a domain-specific mode. For a while they were experimenting with letting you up/downvote search results, and I was hoping that was going to converge with some of their set/collection tools so that you could build very specific filters (more than would be practical using regex) and save them for later use.