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How would your social security number end up on the internet? You'd really have to f**k up, over here anyways.

I don't see my address ending up there either, unless the sites I actually give my adress to get hacked or turn 'bad'. Besides, it can be found out other ways. Besides, I tend to just use a non-existant one for sites it shouldn't be a requirement for, and they still want to find out.

As for my name, big deal. I could guess your name and start harassing you.


On the credit card front, that's a valid point to me, and something you should be careful of. Of course, if it were me I wouldn't put it up on the internet for everyone to see, but keep it as my own information. You'd be screwed either way though..

Samppa wrote:How would your social security number end up on the internet?

Identity theft?

Err.. Yeah, how? You mean someone in real life stole it and put it on the internet?

I love Google, and I think it will be around forever and do great.. many sites have tried to copy them but nothing is as good as Google... google should be defined in Websters Dictionary.. I know it is defined in Urban Dictionary dot com ... everyday somewhere someone is saying "google it", "no fair your googling" and so on... so yeah it will do good, it is doing good

I think google is going to die out anyways. I only use google nowadays to spell check things so I can wikipedia them properly. Thats it...

~c

I believe google will be around for a long time until something bigger comes about. I remember when google was not even prevalent and all there mainly were was yahoo and altavista.

google will be around until the next big thing, the next gen of sw appears..whatever that may be. Then it will become something quaint and retro that future users sit around and think fondly of..." lol i remember when we had to type a query into goole for an answer, and it only threw up 12,000,000,000 matches....ahh those were the days!"

Difficult to forecast anything, but atm it's very difficult to get a hold of the markets if you're competing against google and yahoo. New ideas and things don't catch on quickly to the masses anyway.

And of course, what would stop google from evolving? They have the resources

Samppa wrote:And of course, what would stop google from evolving? They have the resources

providing they choose the right evolutionary path. Resources dissapear quickly if you plow them into dead-ends.
But i think they could easily stay in the race for whatever comes next.

Google is too big to be cancled just like that, it also has so many supporters so if "they" wanted to shut it down the "people" will protest as long as it takes.

I love google, love how it got started by just a simple server in a garage with 2 students programed the search engine and it growed into a large comunity such as it is now. It provides everything (not just searching on the "net"), it would be a pitty if it would be shut down but I hardly doubt it will be.

Greets.

google == h4x0r ...creepy. they're pretty the next big thing and things are slowly rising and gettin good for them. I dont think they'll crumble that easy especially if they're up to something which microsoft are being bothered by their fast pace approach on technology.

I like google knew about it before they were BIG, I also like how they are "trying" to protect peoples privacy unlike most isp's are nowadays....

But lets face it no one will win against pres--- b*sh pretty soon the internet will be policed or is it already (look at the MP*A RI*A going around and sueing poor defenseless people (for example the girl in public housing or the old grandma who doesnt even own a pc!))

Also now the USA is trying to take over the worlds DNS control.

I don't know whats going on but i don't like it.

things will remain the same( i hope)

I use Google all the time. I would really hate to see Google gone.

Microsoft will buy it hahahaaa,,