So Long Google, Hello Bing

Today marks the start of Google's new "privacy" policy, a moronic phrase for what amounts on an unprecedented assault on personal information, so I've switched my search operations to Microsoft's Bing.

Starting today, Google is using its algorithms and server farms to harvest data across its Internet platforms including search, Google Docs, Google+, YouTube and Google mail -- a massive data mining operation blasted by 36 state attorneys general and the European Union, which views the new policy as patently illegal.

Google says this new policy will create "a beautifully simple, intuitive user experience across Google," a statement which blithely ignores the real fiscal reasons behind the policy: capturing personal data to sell ads and in turn stuff. The new Google privacy policy is all about making more money for an outfit that already has oodles.

I'm sure using Bing has its own problems, but at least Microsoft has never adopted the hipper-than-thou mantra of "do no harm" as Google did in its early days.