I stopped using everything Google years ago when I read their gmail license agreement. Not only does Google track you, you gave them the right to read your email and, at their discretion, to sell that information on the open market. The same is true for their search engine. For that reason, I use DuckDuckGo for searches and I think it’s every bit as good as Google. However, unlike Google, it will return results that are favorable to Conservatives. I use a private email vendor for anything I don’t want to go public. I quit gmail altogether.
General Petrous got caught with his mistress because of gmail.
If Paula Broadwell feels her privacy was violated when the FBI gained access to the Gmail account she used to communicate with her amorous biography subject, CIA director David Petraeus, she can at least take comfort that she is not alone.
Google’s .. received 20,938 requests from governments around the world for its users’ private data in the first six months of 2012. Nearly 8,000 of those requests came from the U.S. government, and 7,172 of them were fulfilled