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13y ago
Just like their search engine? They have been flushing cash down the "online services" drain for years, with nary a profit to show, nor any progress in market share. Cash is the one thing Microsoft has. Ability to make tons more
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The NSA has its own team of elite hackers And the sky is /looks blue . Maybe that's why there's no gag order or NDA for the former employees that detail what they did. Everyone knows and expects it.
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13y ago
China and India are not exactly best friends and water wars are one of the reasons. So while China might have done them (they've done worse things,) I'd take these reports with a grain of salt. US agencies, if I'm not mistake
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13y ago
Great hack but unless absolutely necessary I'll just keep searching to find the answer on other sites. Let them keep their info
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13y ago
please read my comment again. It's covered in there
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13y ago
"Google's 'long term memory' offers lots of benefits too" Especially to NSA and local police. NSA can't store everything forever so Google chips in. Are you a Google employee by any chance? If so, your tune w
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13y ago
Same here, FF and DDG. Might have to use Bing or Google a few times but Google isn't /wasn't perfect on every search either. I now do get referrals from DDG on a few on my websites so anecdotally and from a very small sample
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13y ago
Even if they keep their word, that word is as good as the next AG /President. The law didn't change, they just decided not to enforce certain laws. In theory it should be a disturbing trend since we're a "nation of laws&
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"You have neglected to discuss the many many failures Uncle Fester was responsible for....Even my pre-teen children knew it was destined for failure..." Sure, even your pre-teen children and other arm-chair analysts would have g
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"was gloriously good at extracting profits - out of existing, successful product divisions" If you forget that they now have 12 or so divisions with $billion plus in revenue.
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Why does a company need to raise so-much-money before going public? To spend it on a drastically raising revenue before the IPO: "...Our revenue grew by 785% last year so buy shares of our $xx billion company..." *Isn't the
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A conspiracy theorist looking at Google's ad clicks numbers might say that better results equal less clicks on ads. Mind you, that on commercial searches essentially all you see is ads. This works up to a point, a tipping point that is