Personally I appreciate Google immensely. It's an incredibly useful search engine. It's an incredibly useful mapping/directions system. It has what I consider to be the best free email system. I know it can track my internet searches, but every site uses cookies. Personally, I wish everyone would use more. It gears advertisements to things I actually appreciate, rather than annoying noise. I still don't click on them, but at least they don't annoy me.

Google is also funding the wind turbine power grid along the middle east coast of the US, which is desperately needed to get wind power started over here.

I agree that Google is a great too to search for stuff and for information. But one has to be cognizant that their business model relies on data mining.

Because their servers are logging your IP address with each search string it is conceivable that they could actually get a pretty good idea of who is associated with each search in many cases.

Big Brother could be watching your every move on the WWW....

If I were to sum it up in one word.......YES

You don't get to be the #1 anything in this digital age without pulling a few strings..... If you ask me we are all puppets that need to wake up, like the character of Pinocchio. You may not think your actions aren't noticed and analyzed by the powers that be but they in fact are. More than some could imagine.

We need to start a digital revolution!!!!!!!!

Yes, Google associates every search and every e-mail with a given IP. If you're really worried about this you should focus your attention on the ISPs - NOT GOOGLE.

The solution is rather simple: proxy or tor.

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BOTTOM LINE: If your internet traffic needs to be anonymous, make it so. Don't blame Google.
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