Google Saving the World - NOT

I haven't had much to complain about lately and have been distracted with travel for work. But this little disagreement between Google and the US Government got me thinking.

All the news stories seemed to pit poor upstanding Google as being on the side of the little guy as the big mean US Government overstate it's rights and demands information on every search done in the last year.

The single fact that Google HAS all of this information and MORE is a mere saddened frequently not even mentioned. Who is to say the Google is any better then the government in having and utilizing this information?

I think the government is a bit over it's head in this situation and question if they even have enough drive space to store the data but since when has reality ever been an issue with the government?

But Google actively uses this information, not for the benefit of you and I, but for it's own economic interests. I bet if the government walked into the offices of Google and said we would like to pay you to do a search of your data and identify X situation we wouldn't have even heard about this topic. Google would have done it's magic and handed the information over - just like they do to all their other clients.

You think the government seeing what you search is bad? Think what corporate America is doing with that same information then decide how righteous Google really is.

** The opinions espoused in this post are solely the authors in case you didn't know that - don't you hate these stupid idiotic disclaimers that the law essentially requires to avoid being sued over something very obvious.