Come on guys, I think that's a bit of an over-reaction. When Google says "the people you chat with the most" it means "the people in your gtalk that also uses buzz", just corporate sugar coating to make it sound more interesting.
Also, it doesn't really take a scientist to de-select the option to "Display the list of people I'm following and people following me" (hint: it's right there in the settings). OK, it might have been a mistake to make this opt-out instead of opt-in, but hardly comparable to facebooks beacon fiasco, or the more recent "make everything public" decision.
Finally, on Google in general, saying the haven't succeeded in other areas than search is, in my view, a bit ignorant. Gmail, Google Docs, AdSense, Analytics etc. are all very popular products by any measure.
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Really that bad?
Come on guys, I think that's a bit of an over-reaction. When Google says "the people you chat with the most" it means "the people in your gtalk that also uses buzz", just corporate sugar coating to make it sound more interesting.
Also, it doesn't really take a scientist to de-select the option to "Display the list of people I'm following and people following me" (hint: it's right there in the settings). OK, it might have been a mistake to make this opt-out instead of opt-in, but hardly comparable to facebooks beacon fiasco, or the more recent "make everything public" decision.
Finally, on Google in general, saying the haven't succeeded in other areas than search is, in my view, a bit ignorant. Gmail, Google Docs, AdSense, Analytics etc. are all very popular products by any measure.