In the early days of Google they had a press conference. I don't recall the specifics- probably about when they announced having indexed 1B pages on the web.

In the early days of Google they had a press conference. I don't recall the specifics- probably about when they announced having indexed 1B pages on the web. There was concern about privacy. To make a point, a reporter started reading some of the personal things she had learned about said Google CEO(s) from their search engine. Those pages (sorry) were not available in Google the following day. So, yeah. They know how important it is personally. First hand.