Comments on: Google trawls for student data http://www.p2pnet.net/story/11973 p2pnet.net - reader powered Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:27:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/11973#comment-136958 Reader's Write Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:45:01 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/11973#comment-136958 Perhaps Google will use this data. Perhaps they will discard results, having used this survey to stir the pot and make students consider Gmail vs. whatever their schools use. I graduated college a year and a half ago and was forced to juggle a 10MB mailbox for 4 years. All I know is that Google Apps charges $50 per year per seat and each student gets 2GB of email. The only real disadvantage of this, and it's a big one, is that the servers are the on-site property of Google in the USA. This shouldn't really matter to students, however, since their emails would be privy to inspection by the school anyway. Regardless, this is an opt-in survey that will somehow be used by Google to make them money. They're not twisting anyone's arm to fill it out, and if students happen to prefer Gmail then this survey will open the eyes of educational IT administrators. Is there a problem with this? Perhaps Google will use this data. Perhaps they will discard results, having used this survey to stir the pot and make students consider Gmail vs. whatever their schools use.

I graduated college a year and a half ago and was forced to juggle a 10MB mailbox for 4 years. All I know is that Google Apps charges $50 per year per seat and each student gets 2GB of email. The only real disadvantage of this, and it’s a big one, is that the servers are the on-site property of Google in the USA. This shouldn’t really matter to students, however, since their emails would be privy to inspection by the school anyway.

Regardless, this is an opt-in survey that will somehow be used by Google to make them money. They’re not twisting anyone’s arm to fill it out, and if students happen to prefer Gmail then this survey will open the eyes of educational IT administrators. Is there a problem with this?

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