Google is the Internet

Apparently, Google has become synonymous with the Internet. Everyone
panicked today because Google search and apps were down [0]. I got
an email from a client during the outage asking what could be the
cause of the "slow internet". Google really has become the Internet
for most people.

Speaking of Google, I stopped using their services a while ago after
they surreptitiously enabled web history on my account. I had
previously opted-out of web history, and only noticed it when I was
going through my account settings one day. If you, like me, kept a
Gmail window open all the time and never logged out, all your web
and search history was being collected. Nice.

[0] http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/14/1822200

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