[romeodelight]

So Google can index and put ads on them? I'm moving away from Google's services and I don't want them accessing my user data.

[Drbble]

You misunderstand the headline. He is talking about letting users export their data. Here is an article with the full quote from Page: http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/21/larry-page-on-charlie-rose...

[mayanksinghal]

As compared to Facebook that will index and put ads on them. There is no lesser evil here - not in principle at least. All firms seem to be in the same business of selling advertisements. Facebook might be able to do better display advertisements as compared to Google and they seem less intrusive to users - a viewpoint that I subscribe to. But other than the extent of intrusion, both Facebook and Google are using the data you provide for targeted advertisements.

[Edit: Typos]

[sriramk]

This isn't a judgement on ads. This goes to whether I can move networks if I choose to.

[mayanksinghal]

And with that, I agree. Actually FB is providing some level of data movement. I was just replying to my parent comment that was indicating that data should be not be given to Google but to FB because the former will put ads on it.

[romeodelight]

I choose what I want to share on FB.

I don't want Google near my user info.

[fpgeek]

And because of this, other people who want to export their contact list to Gmail shouldn't be able to without large amounts of manual effort?

[duaneb]

I believe the indexing is the attraction.