Old Jaanix Posts

I’m starting to sense a shift in my own dealings with the King of Search. I go out of my way to avoid Google Groups and Gmail. I don’t use Google Docs or Google Apps for my domain, even though they’re arguably easier and more functional than most other setups available today. I avoid having them know all the feeds I’m reading (Reader) and things I’m searching for (log out of google account before searching). I can only assume since these services all sport a unified login now, that Google could not plausibly deny that aggregation is possible across all their (growing) properties. And I trust Google. I do. But who I don’t trust is everyone else. I don’t trust that Google will not be driven by the government to hand over certain records or prevent themselves from a data breach forever. They are a very high value target.