Google In My Opinion Is The Best Search Engine In The Internet, Has An Great Search .. You Find Great Stuff, ETC.. But MSN Live Has More Sites Indexed.. I Mean It Indexs Your Website Much Faster.. But Google Is Still The Best Search Engine, Recently Bought Youtube..
I've always liked Google, even back when it was just starting and almost no one knew what it was. But lately it just doesn't seem like it's improving - just staying the same ... and with the technological world advancing so quickly, they're going to need to keep up! I do have gmail and it's okay ... I still prefer my hotmail account though. The only somewhat nice thing is that you can chat with other gmail users ... but they have to be logged into gmail also, so this rarely happens for me.
I use google all the time, especially the customised Home page, and the person that uses google as a calculator... I have a hotkey on my keyboard that does that (Assuming you are using windows)
Gmail privacy agreement is very messed up. For the first time in Google history, their new policy made it clear that they will be pooling all the information they collect on you from all of their various services. It is in their Privacy Policy that they may give your information collected by any e-mail sent out or has come in by g-mail to whomever they wish.
Google’s Privacy Policy includes that “Gmail account holders have consented to allow Google to show any and all email in their Gmail accounts to any official from any government whatsoever”.
In the article it does say that Google, Yahoo and MSN follow the same policies.One cannot rely on the Search engines and their policies when it comes to the privacy of the user. You never come to know what's happening behind the scene.
Re: Google 
(Assuming you are using windows)
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