I am sick of all this Google bashing here on HN; that's what is bugging me, really.
Come on, its a company, they don't owe you anything;
They sell your data, yes, but it's still the best search engine, by far; to me it's a tool, and yes, they also use their customers as tools to sell adds, that's what the internet is all about - pushing adds.
They could still do worse, they could push much more adds than they do now, but they don't; That's something that few people seem to notice.
Come on, its a company, they don't owe you anything; They sell your data, yes, but it's still the best search engine, by far; to me it's a tool, and yes, they also use their customers as tools to sell adds, that's what the internet is all about - pushing adds.
They could still do worse, they could push much more adds than they do now, but they don't; That's something that few people seem to notice.