As long as you can disable it if you don't like it, as you can with the google+ linking, I don't really see a problem. If it's forced onto you then yes, get out

As long as you can disable it if you don't like it, as you can with the google+ linking, I don't really see a problem. If it's forced onto you then yes, get out of here. > Haven't they learned that people don't like this? SOME people. Search is changing all the time, and it seems to happen faster every year. The two big dogs these days are mixing search with social/your data, and smarter results (custom result format and details depending on the subject, for exemple). Google knows it and make sure to stay on top of the game, frankly not doing it would be the stupid move (one that so many big companies seems to end up doing one day). To be honest I'm even surprised they take the time to make sure you can disable most of this stuff or request verbatim search and things like that, I'm sure it only accounts for a marginal percentage of their visitors (although I'm one of them).