Google analyzes tons of data because they have too. As the parent post said, the "NSA analogy" is wrong because it has a very wrong proposition. Users use it because it solves some real problems for them. AT&T doesn't work for NSA, they works for customers and has a fiber to NSA as by-product.
You cannot compare a for-profit organization to a research facility (e.g. MSR). Such thing as you mentioned is aresearch project, which has much limitations and some of them wouldn't possibly be commercialized. It is the same skeptical as I have to hunch.com, but hunch.com solves some real needs whereas Color from what I see, is pursuit a magic ball floating in the air. And should I remind you that selling backdoor API is not a business, it is a crime.
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No, technology doesn't work in that way: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html
Google analyzes tons of data because they have too. As the parent post said, the "NSA analogy" is wrong because it has a very wrong proposition. Users use it because it solves some real problems for them. AT&T doesn't work for NSA, they works for customers and has a fiber to NSA as by-product.
You cannot compare a for-profit organization to a research facility (e.g. MSR). Such thing as you mentioned is aresearch project, which has much limitations and some of them wouldn't possibly be commercialized. It is the same skeptical as I have to hunch.com, but hunch.com solves some real needs whereas Color from what I see, is pursuit a magic ball floating in the air. And should I remind you that selling backdoor API is not a business, it is a crime.