On why google is evil

We have always known it's a bad thing one big fat company's servers hold so many bits and pieces of our life stashed with them, and a few clicks by someone somewhere could affect us unjustifiably, still until it happens to you, it feels like cynicism and some more. Now, after suffering a virtual homicide of some sorts in blogosphere, I'm forced to wonder - is it time for an un-google-ification. Here's what happened - all the comments I've ever made across blogs, including on my own, have vanished. Without as much as a trace (or an email). Sucks!

That's more than 5 years worth of comments. Did I have no right on them at all? Or the people on whose blogs they were made (like him). I've posted a complaint and stuff, but don't see any help forthcoming. What next - tomorrow this blog can just vanish in thin air? Or, horror of horrors, my gmail account? Makes me furious.

Do I need to prove to google I'm not a spamming bot but a real person - has the world come to this already?

Google is evil.

Time travel must-have!

Chrome vs Firefox, what's the verdict?

The thing with Google, and Apple, in today's times is the instant launch they get with just their name, whichof course comes with the reliability that they'd back it up with an above average product at least and define a new set of stats for the market.(Although sometimes I wish they were a little faster...Googletalk Desktop version needs updated features since forever, and so on). And so it's unsurprising the kind of rage Chrome is these days. Whether it'll survive, only time will tell. For now, it's simple look, easier search in the address bar and visited website tab are finding favor, and reports claim it's faster and is fighting Microsoft's IE8 head-on, the comparison with the more established and bigger favorite Firefox is still iffy. Although my Firefox 3 crashes more often than it should (retrievably) and takes up more memory than Chrome, I think I'm sticking to Firefox for better functionality and stability. Neatness is one thing, but first love is first love. There're bound to be improvements in the future anyway, so the battle is on. What's your choice?

UPDATE: Just got to know, Google apparently has a clause in T&C for Chrome that says Whatever you compose on Chrome...right from emails to blogs, is google's property. Google says it will fix it in the next edition. Gawwwd. No Chrome for me!!! Here:
""By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services."