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by ClutchBand 2421 days ago
Data in what state? Does data need to be stored long-term to be used in analytics? The outcomes of those analytics is the data that is needed and would need to exist for a time, but the day-to-day, I don't know why you would expect all that to hang around.

Google isn't making money from selling actual raw user data, its selling data about that data.