The alliance of Google with Sun against Microsoft is a big clue that together they plan to try to tackle the Microsoft giant together. You can read more about this from David Kirkpatrick’s article at the Fortune site:
At the present time Sun has only agreed to distribute the Google Toolbar to consumers who want it along with Sun’s own Java Runtime Environment (JRE). This is a small step, but an important one that could lead to Google providing free web-centric applications to compete with Microsoft’s desktop applications. Sun’s Jonathan Schwartz explains this at:
You would use the applications free of charge. Google would use them to send you targeted ads.
And as far as the “big brother” experiment in San Francisco: Google has just filed a patent that indicates they are working on a method of monitoring all your actions. The purpose, of course, is to provide you with more targeted advertisements. For a copy of the patent application, see:
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