After AOL’s fumbling of privacy-rich search data, an act for which they’re taking a pounding, customer-centric Google is looking good in this USA Today article on the topic:
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has a message for Google users: Your searches are safe.
“Our No. 1 priority with our users is trust,” Schmidt told some 2,000 attendees at the Search Engine Strategies conference.
Safa Rashtchy, an analyst at equity firm Piper Jaffray, takes Schmidt at his word. “Google is one of the most protective companies on the planet,” he says. “They have a culture of secrecy.