Google is more than welcome to help me locate stuff according to a given query. But this latest trend of Google seeming to want information regarding my health is giving me the creeps. Frankly, I have no interest in Google learning based on my searches as to what type of self-diagnosing I happen to do.

More than anything, I fear people putting too much trust into the almighty search query while not visiting a doctor when they need to instead. It’s simply not a good idea to make self-diagnosis even easier. Available, okay, but Google better start up with a bundled of fine print before getting too deep into this.

As the article linked above claims, Google is still not sure what it wants to do with this data. And as anyone who has ever reviewed one of those fancy free TOS docs knows, Google is likely to do anything they please with it. Clearly, convenience before privacy rules the day.