Do they not know how many they have?

...just improve your PR!

Any truth to the rumour that Page is considering a run for public office? He certainly has the mindset right...

There is now officially a "Googley way". So, for anyone that had a doubt, doubt no more. Google is an international monopoly, It has joined the Dark Side and is now traveling down the blue-red-green-yellow brick road to perdition.

Do no evil ? That is now a marketing scheme.

Cute little cartoons a la "Love Is..." called "Evil isn't..."

"we'll surely do a better job of fighting for our common interests."

Common interests? What are they?

You're recording personal information in violation of the Eu privacy law which stems from Article 8, Protection of Personal Data and Article 7, Respect for Private and Family life.

Now stop it please. Generate whatever metrics you claim you need and anonymize the data immediately. Your users didn't give you permission to record all that data on them, you took it upon yourself for your own commercial gain in violation of EU law.

I guess we've gone from wash, and we're now on the spin cycle, next we get hung out to dry.