>> It was supposed to do something useful but all it does is mine data for ads. Gmail, docs, sheets, slides, drawings, calendar and geez just 1000 other things

>> It was supposed to do something useful but all it does is mine data for ads. Gmail, docs, sheets, slides, drawings, calendar and geez just 1000 other things disagree with you. Yeah I know the ad network is paying for that stuff: that's the bargain that people who use their ecosystem of software products have made, just as people on Apple's ecosystem accept their tradeoffs. It just seems extremely cynical to suggest Google has done, or is doing, nothing useful. If there was no utility flowing the other way in return for the eyeballs and profile data I don't think they'd have a business.