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Again, how do you know that somebody doesn't put something sensitive into the Google Search bar?


The actual history of companies losing secrets.

It’s much harder to reconstruct actionable intelligence from a huge stream of people using Google search even if they’re using it to preform sensitive calculations.


While theoretically possible for something bad to happen, short phrases are much less likely to have actionable/sensitive info in them than the full document corpus of a company.




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