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By QUENTIN FOTTRELL
1. "We know what you did last summer."
Google, the giant search-engine company, has looked unusually vulnerable lately: It rattled financial markets on Thursday when it announced a 20% drop in third-quarter profits -- and it accidentally released the results prematurely, to boot.
Yet despite the flap, Google.com's dominance in search is unrivaled. And it owes that dominance not only to the way it dispenses information to consumers, but also to the surprising amount of data it collects from them....
SmartMoney.com article
1. "We know what you did last summer."
Google, the giant search-engine company, has looked unusually vulnerable lately: It rattled financial markets on Thursday when it announced a 20% drop in third-quarter profits -- and it accidentally released the results prematurely, to boot.
Yet despite the flap, Google.com's dominance in search is unrivaled. And it owes that dominance not only to the way it dispenses information to consumers, but also to the surprising amount of data it collects from them....
SmartMoney.com article