Can We Trust Google?

theodp writes "Google worries go mainstream this week in TIME's cover story, Can We Trust Google With Our Secrets? Touted as an 'inside look' at how success has changed Larry and Sergey's dream machine, the piece offers some interesting tidbits but in the end is pretty much a softball effort that even toes the mum's-the-word line on the relationship between Larry Page and 'blond, blue-eyed force of nature' Marissa Mayer. Guess it's the least Time Warner could do after pocketing $1B of Google's money."

Re:Gotta love it.

[tuomasr]

Here's everything you can read. Unless you're a subscriber to TIME.

Or if you click through the ads, you can read the whole article. No subscription necessary.

Trust?

[musonica]

I'd like to think these guys are generally good, although the worrying issue is that they are basically a corporation, with the prime directive of making money. Lets hope social conscience stays a reality in google hq.

The other worrying fact is they are so hugely resourced (and unlike m$ seem to get projects working reasonably well), woe and behold any small developers working on something that is in their "sites" so to speak! Monopolies are not a good thing...

Can you trust the Internet?

[treehouse]

Of course not. Everything you post to /. is recorded somewhere. So is everything you said on Wikipedia and every query you ever made on Google, Yahoo, etc. etc. Not to mention all the ads that trace where you've been. And anyone can correlate all that together. So what are your choices? Turn off your computer? Use something like idzap for all your Internet work? Because privacy is dead. All you have is unimportance. As long as you remain unimportant, then no one will care what you do.

Re:What's going on?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm smoking, uh, smokes, go the gas station if you need some.

Not overall revenue, revenue on the dollar. The more you make, the more you are taxed. So, when my salary jumed from 60K to 85K, I jumped tax brackets and I was hit with more taxes, so even though, yes, I was making more, I was making less percentage of each dollar of my salary. That's why tax deductions are so crucial, they help to lower the taxable income to drop a company (or person) into a lower tax bracker so they get more of each dollar they took in.

Now, when my salary jumps from 85K to over 100K (as I hope it will with this next job offer I was told to expect, I will need to figure out a way to spend my money so that it is deductible so that, even though I make and spend the same about either way, more of that income is not considered "taxable".

Google's taxable income was higher than expected is all.

I am about to form an LLC with some ppl and have been going over this to the point of hating life with tax attorney, accountants, etc.

Not an expert, though.