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One of the worries I have on regular basis is the fact that by using Google I might be giving my ideas away to a big company who are able to implement them before I will be.
I have been wondering for a while whether Google encourages feedback, collaboration and hosting on their machines in order to harness the best ideas produced by the masses world wide.
It would not surprise me if Google had some sort of an algorithm roaming around their servers processing people's feedback and carrying out quite extensive qualitative research into what people want.
After all, this is what PageRank algorithm has been designed for.
Fair enough if Google uses the official feedback we send to them in form of ideas and information sent through their feedback forms. I have nothing against that.
I just feel there should be a more transparent policy from Google (something that is made 100% clear to all users) that their content will not be used to further propel Google's success as a company.
For example, if I am working on an idea of a software application and am administering all the documentation development for that software application through Google's Docs and Spreadsheets, then GoogleBot will have full access to all my thoughts and captured information regarding that project.
So far I have not been able to 'catch' any of Google's terms and conditions which guarantee to me that Google will never 'rip' any of my ideas off and make it their own (i.e. carry out some form of an intellectual steeling from their users).
I must admit that at the moment I do worry about that and that I would like to see Google make this fact a little more open and transparent.
Currently this matter is preventing me from utilising Docs and Spreadsheets more widely throughout Flexewebs.
PS: Same could be the case with Gmail too.
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