Originally posted by Hendu
Ok, well who's to say what Google can and can't retreive? Could it be the owners selectively allow stuff like AOL? It's 'someone's' engine, not mine so I can't say what they should allow right?

Well, its none of my business, its the owners business, thats right. But there are data protection laws that are still in place, I think (hope).

Does google really delete files after awhile, or are they playing a kind of "book-of-life" God or Akasha Chronciles in which everything you ever did online is saved forever and ever?

I checked that out, thats very interesting mysterylady.

to all other readers of this thread: does anyone know how long the data is kept or when/if it is deleted?

wow...thanks for that video. I knew there might be something sinsiter going on here but the CIA and genetic-research connection is new to me.

It kind of blew me away in the common sense of it all...

I mean if one looks at it, it all makes sense, but I have never seen it put together like that before..

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well, we can see it like this:

the only way to make people accept big brother is by making them fall in love with big brother first. google has become one of the most loved and relied on products in the world. if all that is the case then there have been some very sly minds working on this.

I can only speak for China here, but the only reason that Google is being complicit with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is because of money.

Since all ISPs in China are government regulated, China can turn off access to Google at will. When I was studying in Beijing that is exactly what the Chinese government did on June 6, 2006. Talking to close friends that worked at Google, the problem seemed to be centered ONLY in Beijing and a rumor was floating around that it was to get back at some perceived slight that Google did. I also heard that it was done due to influence by Microsoft, which has much better relations with the CCP.

And the other thing against this Googl in cahoots with the CCP is Baidu. It's the Chinese carbon copy of Google that has over 60% of the search share in China. Google has maybe 25% currently. In truth, the CCP really doesn't need Google, it's the other way around.

It might be a good Idea to start at lets say page 20 and work yourself back to page 1 on big searches, that way you disrupt any messing with search results to get info on first page.

You can go to advanced search and set pages displayed to 100 and look from bottom up also.

I have started using ask.com

Avoiding Google completely now....

I don't see the reason to take any chances myself. I Love the google search, but there are other engines just as good...


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Today I read in a computer magazine that Google only picks up 2% of the entire information in the Internet. That surprised me as i would have thought its more like 80% or something.

Does anybody know more about this?