Thanks, Mr. McKay, for being here.
I might have a little bit of insight on some of the more technical aspects, but I don't think we need the conversation to go there.
I have some questions for you straight up front. You talked about Google Chrome and you talked about how it has that incognito mode. Then immediately you proceeded to talk about analyzing search logs.
When you're talking about Google Chrome, I mean, I'm going to make a fairly broad assumption here. Google's corporate worth comes from its data. Your most strategic asset is your data. That's mostly user data, user trends. It's what makes you marketable.
Now, you're selling it to me today, at committee, and I believe you. I believe strategically that it's in Google's best interest to provide the best service possible for its customers. But I'm not your only customer. I'm a user of the Google product. Your customers would be any other marketing agency that might want to have access to what my preferences might be, what my trends might be, what my shopping interests might be. That's based on my navigation and browsing history.
So when you talk about Google Chrome not having anything tracked or preventing history from being loaded, you're simply talking about on the local machine. You'll still know where I've been, because that will be tracked elsewhere. Is that not true?