Google Wants to Index Your DNA, Too


	Google Wants to Index Your DNA, Too

wildcat

4-23-2008 6:23 AM

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google, indexing, dna

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4-23-2008 7:30 AM

Antara

fascinating!

4-23-2008 3:42 PM

papadavid

amazing, but not surprising

4-23-2008 4:24 PM

AcesLucky

Scary.

4-24-2008 2:15 PM

masbury

I'm already uncomfortable with what Google does with the info it has on all of us. I've started using Ask! for searches more, because it allows you to have your history removed from their records (or so they say, at least).
Maybe I'm paranoid, but when I was a kid Richard Nixon secretly sicced the FBI on peace activists.

4-25-2008 6:12 AM

RecordSage

That's explains why we have no peace...

4-25-2008 6:13 AM

RecordSage

Sorry, I meant 'that'...

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