Nobody seems to have much of a problem with Amazon's Alexa service tracking Internet browsing habits to produce its notoriously inaccurate site traffic graphs, nor the software installed by the likes of HitWise and comScore to do the same. So why does anyone care if Google is leveraging the suckers who downloaded Google's Toolbar application to serve them more highly targetted ads, with or without disclosure? I mean, it's not like Google's executives actually believe in that "Don't be evil" nonsense. [TechCrunch]

January 24: Google launches Google.cn, a Chinese search page with censored results. Every tech media outlet raises a stink.