No, here's what Google is probably doing.

- You log into your Gmail account. They've already scanned emails sent to you, looking for keywords. They log the IP address you signed in from.
- You write an email. They scan it for keywords.
- You then do a search. They track what you are searching for.
- You jump over to YouTube. They track that
- You go to Blogger.com to read some blogs. Oh yes, another Google property. They track that.
- You go to CNN.com for the news. Ads are served to you, and doubleclick (the largest click tracking company, also owned by Google), keeps track of what you click on.

Google now has your email address tied to your ip address...and knows EXACTLY what YOU have been looking at and clicking on and has scanned all your email looking for keywords.

Microsoft does not tie your email address to your ip address along with your web searches. Microsoft does not scan your emails. Big difference here.

>Neither can Google, unless you let them. And the filthy language they use to scam you in different places, to put all your information together - all your emails plus cell phone number - allegedly offering that as an "upgrading your account" and for the latter, a "safety measure - if someone changes your password, you get notified via SMS" (while we can put even more info together about you)... borderline disgusting. And I know some folks, just as experienced as we here, who have just given up and gave them all.
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>Again, not that they can't put it all together already, but things get different when there's your explicit consent on it.
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>>But the big plus is that Microsoft doesn't collect personal information to target market to you. All they know is that SOMEONE at your IP address looked at a particular web page. That's where Google goes wrong.
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>I'm not arguing that Google has not become worse than Microsoft, it has. Still doesn't make Microsoft look good in that respect.