you learn something every day

This link came from www.oreilly.com .

I don't use Gmail and honestly hadn't thought about the business model at all, but I probably should have. And people who use it probably should even more.

Now I understand much better why countries like the U.S. Russia and China want the Google servers for their users stored in their country. What a lovely mine of info. No need to take everything off the Internet and store it, someone is already storing it for you.