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> In order to get the Play Store, an OEM has to agree to install all the other ‘required’ Google apps including Google Voice Search, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk (now Hangou…

>Thechnically Skylake support for Win7 wasn't announced, but the effect is the same since there was an implicit expectation that the feature would come. From where did this implici…

Well that's a fairly misleading comparison. Where is the screenshot for Outlook.com which has no ads either? Not to mention the fact that Gmail is valuable to Google because it get…

Can't drop something that doesn't exist.

If you follow the thread, it's about calling Google an AI company.

How much of Google's profit(or even revenue) is not from tracking user data and advertising? Search, Gmail, Android, Chromebooks, Nexus, Pixel, Youtube, Maps etc. everything is abo…

That reads like sarcasm, but I am not 100% sure.

I use IRCCloud.com, but this looks very interesting to throw on my Linux server on Google Cloud to play around with.

Well, abusing their search dominance among other things like making ads indistinguishable from organic results and paid placement on verticals like shopping/hotels etc. was eventua…

So, does that mean, for example, anything you type in a non-public Google Docs is auto scanned for advertising purposes?

Why do you refer to MS as M$? In my experience the people who do that are far from the people who worked or would work at MS. https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/22/m

It's very telling that you get a 3 year free Google Drive storage account with 1TB or so storage instead of more local storage on Chromebooks. The terms of service allow them to mi…

Flash bundles things like Chrome, Mcafee etc. That's the real reason they don't want a auto-update. Google pays them a lot for bundling Chrome(I think it's around $1 per install). …

From http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-google-skewed-search-results... >A previously undisclosed report by staffers at the Federal Trade Commission reveals new details about how Goog…

Nah there isn't.

Are you serious? Do you even know how Reddit works?