Google practices

It's hard to get around google :

http://sosconso.blog.lemonde.fr/2013/09/09/comment-google-detourne-les-internautes-de-leur-recherche-dhotel/

NSA, Google, Facebook et al.

It seems to have become standard practice in the United States that large corporations freely share our private data with intelligence agencies (presumably in return for support on the international, legislative and other fronts).

My Facebook account has been deactivated and deleted.

As one counter measure to the pervasiveness of Google in my life, I plan to use http://www.duckduckgo.com most frequently for my searches.

Google discontinued Google Reader : http://www.feedly.com is a reasonable alternative (though it bugs me tremendously that I cannot search through my articles - any recommendations ?).

Further changes of practice will presumably follow.