Business-to-business electronic commerce (B2B) typically takes the form of automated processes between
trading partners and is performed in much higher volumes than business-to-consumer (B2C) applications

Here’s something.

And here’s something more.

Hope you will forgive me.

Seriously, if you’re upset with Google’s policy on a certain just don’t use it. You can even turn off the feature to search across computers on GDS 3.

Some people would find this a useful feature if they have multiple computers. I have one, so I have it off (and I’m running Linux most of the time, which GDS doesn’t run on).

I think the search across computers feature is even disabled by default. You’d have to be a real idiot to “accidentally” turn it on.

Google gives us all this stuff for free- if you don’t like it, no cost to you.

“Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth”, if you will.

Nubers-wise, yes, corporate entities like Google, with huge amounts of money to spend on free storage, take away from business for smaller email providers.

But really, if the smaller provider don’t have the features to compete, what are they trying to prove? That’s what it’s about- features. Innovation.

Google doesn’t stop other companies from getting great ideas and using them in their products- heck, if a great idea struck me, I could code it alone, no problem.

Yes. Of course, I agree with your privacy stuff. GDS 3 caused quite a stir, though I would not be objected to using it (if only they ported GDS to Linux…!)

Search across computers, as you mentioned, must be enabled before it works, so it’s just a neat feature Google threw in. If I had multiple computers, I might enable it.

As you said- if you don’t like the idea of your information stored outside of your hard drive, you should go find another company for email, desktop search, and even searching itself.

Hell, even if everyone knew my password, I don’t know what they would get out of looking at my stuff anyway. Obviously, I wouldn’t want them to, but it’s not like I’m in the Mafia or something.

Obviously, paranoid privacy activists like to shoot Google down for storing so much information on their servers. But if I was Google, I would do the same thing- give people an option. Is that so bad after all?

At any rate, my apologies if my reply sounded like a rant.

BTW, I would like to know your honest opinion about Google’s China policy. I think Google is doing the right thing- providing reliable organization of data (minus a few key terms) to an enormous amount of people. IHMO, of course- but don’t you think that does more good than harm?

We’re evil, we want to effectively manage and distribute all the information on the web to everyone.

We’re evil, we want to give you two gigabytes of storage and an email address for free.

We’re evil, we want to give reliable service to Chinese people, and are willing to make compromises with the Chinese government to do so.

We’re evil, but we will openly defy the US government to protect our user’s rights of privacy.

Wow. You’ve convinced me. We’re pure evil, us Google guys.