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Hate to side with the big guys, but its a free service. Beggars can't be choosers. They probably dump indexes after a while for content older than x. Seems fair

• graedus 9y ago
  You're paying with your data, same as with Facebook and many others. These extremely successful businesses are obviously able to make plenty of money using that data.
  • gonzo41 9y ago
    Maybe your data isn't worth what you think it is these days. Maybe they actively index what is recently used. It's cost benefit for them.
• batbomb 9y ago
  Then there's not much point to using Gmail. That was a huge part of the "never delete anything again" ploy.
  • ForHackernews 9y ago
    > Then there's not much point to using Gmail. Almost there...