http://www.google.com/intl/en-US/policies/privacy/
Here's Google's privacy policy. I think they put in in fairly plain English that they know everything about you and your internet traffic, what you like, where you are. They say the do it to make their services better for you, and to cater advertising to your liking. A long, long time ago in a world we once knew, people had privacy. The internet, and especially Google, has changed that. 20 years ago I could like peanut butter and no one would know unless I told them, or they asked me in a conversation. Now, all peanut butter manufacturers know that I like peanut butter and they can bombard me with lots of peanut butter advertisements. Thank you, Google, for breaking down a person's identity into search terms. Where Google fails is that people's likes and dislikes change. One day I may hate peanut butter, then what? You are not only what you eat, but you are the many key clicks of your internet surfing. And, Google, sometimes we end up on the wrong website, so being on a website doesn't really mean it's a personal interest.
This is a pretty neat little gadget. You just go to this site, (http://www.wordle.net/) enter some text, or a URL, and the program generates an image with the words from that URL, or text that you entered, and the size of the text is a relation to how often it is used on your page. This is a Wordle of this blog page.
