Something I've been thinking about. Everyone claims google wants a monopoly on the world's data, ie, they want to know everything about you.

Well look at this. Before Gmail, we'd have maybe 100 emails on a servers inbox, the rest we had to delete.

Since Gmail came out, we're encouraged to leave all our mail on their servers, and just sort through it. That means that they have access to all of our emails.

They even had a clause before where deleting an email could take "up to a x number of days to remove from our server".

Just something that got me thinking...

Yes! They couldn't keep copies of the e-mails you had in the other e-mail services before you deleted them. The people running this sinister conspiracy were completely retarded.

i disagree, its just that with new homeland security and all that trash its almostinevitable that EVERY sing le one of our emails are stored and assessed. any which have no relevance to anything might still be used for profiling (ala myspace, facebook etc)

i stopped using google once i findout they keep every single search. Thats my business google can go fuck off

what do you use for searching?

i've started using ask.com

ill be the first to admit google is the best search engine.

I tried out cuil.com. I love the idea, but it really fuckin sucks lol. Ill keep trying to use it, but its useless for a majority of the stuff i search.

Ive been using wikipedia more, and ive been using yahoo. ill try out ask.com see how that works

edit: Yahoo also keeps your searches but its supposdly for only a month or two. I hate it, hence why i keep trying cuil, but atleast they arent publicly saying they keep every search haha

http://www.scroogle.org/

All emails remain permanent on the google servers. This has been common knowledge for quite some time; even after you delete them from your inbox they remain on their servers permanently.

Perhaps not Gmail, but Google itself would certainly love a monopoly on your data:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...change-it.html

...until the Internet community got pissed about it.

What are diagreeing with? My point is that he sees a conspiracy now and not before when the reality is that they'd always had access to all of our e-mails even when we didn't have large amount of space to save them.