Google extends search tendrils to cover data in apps Google has expanded its search feelers into content stored inside apps. Previously, the search engine giant only indexed content that matched content on the broader internet, but increasingly information is contained only within apps themselves, meaning that it is not broadly accessible. The company has been experimenting …
And anything found by in-app search is discoverable by whatever mechanism the government chooses to use with their vacuum pump du juor. I'm fairly certain that the recent moves by Google and Microsoft are in reaction to Snowden's revelations and public/private reactions by those same corporations and legislative/civil-service sectors. Their's a rumbling beneath the surface here and I have no idea how they will play out.
I don't agree. People create apps because they can monetise more effectively and because it's trendy. The majority of apps don't do anything that a good html5 site couldn't.
Also, this allows the user to "stream" the app without installing it, proving that you don't need an installed app to access the information.
The root problem is that it's difficult to monetise websites. Solve that problem and the need for apps will be much reduced. How many apps run offline, do so much processing on device that javascript can't keep up or need write access to the devices file system?
No, I use apps so I can use them offline. Mobile data and reception is not 100%. We cannot even keep landlines and TV broadcasting going during the most important tasks and events. I'd not trust my apps being dependable with the net 100% of the time.
PS, yes I know some apps require the net. But I'd prefer keeping as much off that space as possible.
Citing the growing need for medical profits, Google today announced "Google Sewage Reporter" which taps into the sewage from your home and workplace.
Larry Page beamed and noted "Now you won't be able to take a SH'T without us knowing every detail"
You're a bit late there.
https://archive.google.com/tisp/index.html
"To offset the cost of providing the TiSP service, we use information gathered by discreet DNA sequencing of your personal bodily output to display online ads that are contextually relevant to your culinary preferences, current health status and likelihood of developing particular medical conditions going forward."
Icon because... well, it -was- an April Fools' Day joke...
She named a number of nine initial "partners" that Google is working with: Chimani, Daily Horoscope, Gormey, Hotel Tonight, My Horoscope, New York Subway, Visual Anatomy Free, Useful Knots, and Weather
That's a rather diverse and eclectic selection of initial partners there. Nearly everything you'd need to commit the perfect crime:
First, you'll need to check your
Daily/My horoscope - to see if the proper planets are aligned. If so, you may need a
Hotel Tonight - to stay in before you get on the
New York Subway - to go to the restaurant you found on
Gormey - where they have a nice fava bean and Chianti dish. Check the
Weather - to see if you'll leave footprints in the park you looked up on
Chimani - after using the
Useful Knots - and knowledge gleaned from
Visual Anatomy Free - to bind your victim for transport and dispatch once at your destination.
Hm.
Unless the ad servers are in the Cloud. So, how long until a Tor ad network?
The old paradigms are ending. The browser did an end run around the OS war. The app will do an end run around the browser war. The Cloud and the Phone mean IPs will have no useful meaning. SSL/Tor means the traffic will have no useful meaning.
Technically sweet - but then that's what Oppenheimer said about the hydrogen bomb.
Clever little boys, all of them.
Can we ask for details on exactly what service provider is "Weather"? Weather, by whom precisely? There are many providers and even more weather apps acting as front ends to that provider-created data, where do we look and point the finger?
It is IMPORTANT that we know this...so that we can block the service.
After deleting my Google account from my Android phone, the next highest thing is my Disabled list for Google products that gives me much, much joy every time I have to go in an review it. But fools and their privacy are soon easily parted in today's modern world, so I feel no sympathy for the idiots who wantonly give their life details to a corporation for small conveniences...while complaining about a government that does the same.
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