It's official: Google wants to own your online identity - Tech News and Analysis - 7 views
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Robin Cicchetti on 30 Aug 11Users forfeit the ownership of their user data to Google.
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Google’s purpose was clearly to “provide identity in a commerce-ready way. And to give them information about what you do on the Internet, without obfuscation of pseudonyms.
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obvious search-related rationale for launching a social network like Google+, since indexing and mining that kind of activity can help the company provide better “social search” results. But the real-name issue has more to do with Google’s other business: namely, advertising.
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