Informant38

Hidden Distributed Search Function in Google Toolbar But based on the average age of the Googlers in Mountain View, my wild guess is that you were running around in diapers when the feds were prosecuting me for refusing to get drafted and fight in Vietnam.
The bottom line is this:
a) Google is collecting, absorbing, and indexing an incredible amount of information, at a level and efficiency that civilization has never seen before;
b) much of this is not publicly available (surfing history from cookie data, etc.);
c) even the stuff that is publicly searchable is made available at the pleasure of Google, Inc., and finally;
d) you don't control Google's future.
At least one software engineer at Google used to work for the National Security Agency and held a top-secret clearance, according to his resume (found using a Google search).