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> User data older than ~90 days is essentially worthlesl Worthless, commercially - yes. But priceless and utterly invaluable for historical interest and acade
by DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
> User data older than ~90 days is essentially worthlesl
Worthless, commercially - yes.
But priceless and utterly invaluable for historical interest and academic research! I hope Google keeps their Ngram, search-stats and even geolocation history for everyone (anonymized and aggregated, of course) - it'll be an invaluable tool for researchers of all kinds to be able to see, for example, how our movement patterns varied from ~2015 when we started collecting that en-mass to some point in the future.
Ditto Google Street View archives - Street View is now almost 13 years old and I'm looking forward to being able to see how things were in everyday life back in 2008 compared to however things are when I'm old and grey).