so google grew out of the ph d. program at stanford right they have this affinity for academics they view themselves as academic a little bit nature their campus looks like a college campus so google provides a ton of funding for academic institutions individual academics all around the world so we found something like three hundred papers that were funded by google in some way that supported google's policy positions they like to say hey we have the country's foremost academic experts behind us and what they're not telling the public is the fact that they're actually funding these so-called independent experts these so-called independent academics where shows have time for congress about whether or not google is a monopoly he was relying on academic study to bolster his point they didn't disclose at the paper was actually funded by the. are you concerned that your company has been full excerpting enormous power internet traffic in ways that hurt many small world businesses and the whole extremely good and well mean

and then google see this is so google was saying no actually we're going to keep your data. and we're going in organized society you know how to improve enough to muster world. there are a couple trends i think lead google off of its path of being the the place that just match people with the best information on the web and led them off into the internet and that was the birth of smartphones steve jobs unveiled the i phone in the rise of facebook and this notion that time spent on a site where users doing lots and lots of time on facebook became really important metrics that advertisers are paying attention to and so google's response was basically to deviate from that original eat those in becoming a place were they were trying to keep people on google so they very rapidly started to branch out into other areas they were getting a lot of information from people using the search engine but if people went directly to a website. that's bad because now google doesn't know that so they developed a browser which is now the most widely used to browse around the world chrome by get

to get people on to google and off of google out into the open web as quickly as possible and largely they were really successful about that the success of google led to in many ways the success of the open web and this explosive growth in startups and innovation during that period google had developed this incredible technology called page rank unveiling what was known for the back row about them and it was your sleeps and bounds ahead of services like yahoo altavista and quickly became the clear winner in the space just from a technology basis and what page does is it spiders around the internet instead of being a directory service like yahoo was it's taking pictures of web pages and analyzing the links between the web pages and using them to make some assumptions about relevance and so if you're looking for some history of abraham lincoln and there's a bunch of links to process the web pointing to a particular site that must mean that this page is the quote unquote most relevant . now they had to figure out how do we make money off this we've got an index how do we make money well

it was google and facebook. imagine that you run a blood bank and they in one room are dead patients they've been dead since two thousand and eight j.p. morgan goldman sachs do it your bank b.n.p. society generali just b. c. etc and in the other room you have living middle class people and the point of blood bank is to take blood from the living middle class people and to transfuse the blood to the dead banks next door that they've been dead now for more than ten years will naturally the people that are in the middle class are going to start to suffer and suffer horribly and many of them will die by the way they won't be getting any of the blood from the other middle class people to keep them alive all the blood all the plasma goes to the dead but. we get only if you don't want the book. to do. so pretty simple but just to me if you go back to cuba. they were among the group. to build a movie before you except your then he says who calls for folks like me that the security. oh. well. we're going to produce. this

google chrome. google video. toward the end, i headed up the legal team that ran web search. >> what was the focus of your seminar? >> i was in a seminar that was about platforms and amplification and online speech. >> what should the rules be? >> the u.s. has a pretty good law in place, a set of laws in place that have been there since the 1990's and are a lot of the reason we have the internet sector we do today. >> is this the decency act? >> that is one of the big ones. section 230. it has gotten a lot of criticism. there is section 230 that covers most kinds of speech -- dell digital millennium copyright act. anything that is a federal crime, platforms don't have any special immunity. the big example is child sexual abuse material. they have the same obligations as anyone else. >> you said the u.s. has a good patchwork of laws. is it different in the eu or asia? >> it is very different. the eu is the easiest example. they have a framework. it is the process of may be changing. what they have had since the ye

. >> host: in your new book "from gutenberg to google: the history of our future" you talk about it is not necessarily the inventors who know how to use this technology, people like martin luther and mark zuckerberg. >> guest: one of the interesting things i was able to substantiate is that it is never the primary network that is transformative but the secondary effects of that, it is how for instance the printing press not only enabled lu to come out of northern italy, how the first high-speed network, the railroad, created the industrial revolution and how the first electronic network, the telegraph, allow for the creation of a national financial system, national markets. it is always the secondary effect. that is what mark zuckerberg and larry page with facebook and google. >> host: can you compare the developed of railroad to the development of the internet? >> the railroad was the first high-speed network. stop and think about it. for the entire history of mankind, geography and distance have ruled. everything was circumscribed by how far the animal, man and beast could go in a da

google go toeo of testify in front of congress.ed her if that is something she is thinking about. she said our mantra is that we look to build for everyone and respect the user and opportunity . we should be continuing to up the bar on ourselves in that is the way we approach it every day. that is perhaps the most humble i have heard her about that .articular question lastly, i had to ask her about the need to movement -- me to movement ongoing. instituted a new policy to allow employees to complain in different ways. thatas a policy she says .rohibits retaliation she says we investigate all allegations and have multiple ays to report, so wide-ranging conversation, but my guess is all the focus is going to me on the revenue numbers. >> speaking of the revenue , some of the other areas starting to gain traction including the cloud were companies like amazon and microsoft are making an absolute fortune. is this an area where alphabet could show some traction and gain more market? the ad industry is already dominant. did they see a lo

is google not a favored company in europe? >> google is a favorite company. itdo consumers enjoy using obviously it is popular. >> usage. record high. enjoys in record reputation. the office is one of those which is savvy and articulate and what they are doing. one thing you see with market leaders, you may lead in your market and other aspects. thatld not necessarily see as a negative element. a selective reading everybody has. you only notice what you want to notice. authorities, data protection authorities, they are independent organizations. the fine or act upon information they receive from all sides. european ones as well as where the companies come from. wehave recently published, have recently published fines related to competition cases. place inll over the all sorts of sizes. google is no exception. >> what is the eu approach to 5g? where are you? many people portrayed it as a race. i think we could split that conversation a little bit. bringsalk about 5g which faster rates to your phone? are we talking about 5g which connects smart vices which unde

stay tuned as i mentioned we'll definitely see google number, google alphabet, i'm old school on "afterthank you so much. appears vice president joe biden is just a bit late for his speech. [closing bell rings] meantime you witness another all-time record for s&p and nasdaq. connell: we have new numbers just moments away that could send stocks even higher from here. we'll see. google's parent company alphabet expected to release earnings. those are coming any minute. we'll tell you about that report as soon as we get numbers, with the dow settling in nine or 10 points higher at the close. give or take, 1% shy of record territory. the nasdaq closes once again at a new all-time high. looks like the subpoena 500 will by three points. good to be with you on a monday. happy monday. melissa: it is monday. google our big story, tells you so much what is going on in the economy. i'm melissa francis this is "after the b

but google has a lot of features that are hard to beat. i got lost on the way here but google maps is invaluable. like everyone, i'm in a balance and part of the challenge of our times i think is developing a sense and as we have other industries of how our choices matter i think ten years ago most of us were just facebook, google, amazon can do no wrong in here comes the future, i love it and that is part of the way they became monopolies. they are the best and why would you need an alternative to google. it's so great. i believe just like in other areas, of eating or the beer you drink or product to buy, people are thinking more about this and wonder if you use one company all the time if it tends to create a monopoly, too much accumulation of data and i think i am one of the people who is accumulating a lot. i tend to look also for products that i feel are on my side, i use the brave browser which is different from the other browsers. it's so crazy but to get out there on the internet today you have to armor yourself up and you need goo

paid clicks on google they were up 39%. costs per click on google was down 19%.se are positive as well. operating margin coming in at 18%. on the ad revenue side, more than $30 billion. remember we were talking about digital ad revenues from facebook last week as well. when you put the two companies together, that is lion's share of the whole space, guys. back over to you. connell: light on overall revenue. jackie, thanks, melissa. melissa: biden's first 2020 rally. the former vice president is about to speak before supporters in pittsburgh at any moment. hillary vaughn on the ground. hillary. reporter: jill biden teeing up her husband, former vice president joe biden, native to pennsylvania. he was born four hours from here in scranton. his big pitch to u.n. workers we need a president that will respect unions and bring back the middle class. when we asked him why pennsylvania, why are you here, pennsylvania is big battleground state t filmed to jump in 2016. voters i talked to today, biden is the guy that will bring pennsylvania back to democrat control in 2020

and google has over 200 acquisitions. i think the case is a little harder on amazon and google. i think that they also make a product that is -- seems superior to many of their competitors. but overall, my message is that we need to have an economy where the big companies play by the same rules as the little ones. in the case of facebook, i particularly feel that they should be broken up. that their mergers were illegal and they should release instagram and what's up as separate companies. >> will that happen? >> i think there's a good chance. i think whoever took that case would have the public at their back, would have sort of the wind in their sails. i don't think the case is that hard legally. it takes a certain courage, a certain will to bring that kind of case. i think we need to recover the courage of theodore roosevelt who challenged the biggest companies of his time when he became president, the john rock fellers and jp morgueance. he stood up to them. so i think we need courageous enforcers but i think the public is clamoring for something. i think -- we started talkin

google has over 200 acquisitions. the case is little harder, i'll be straight with you, on amazon and google. i think they also make a product that seems superior to many of their competitors. but overall, my message is that we need to have an economy where the big companies play by the same rules as the little ones. in the case of facebook i particularly feel that they should be broken up, that the mergers were illegal and they should release instagram and what's at as separate companies. >> host: will that happen? >> guest: i think there's a good chance. i think whoever took that case would have the public at the back, would have sort of the wind in their sales. i don't think the case is that hard, legally. it takes a certain courage, a certain will to bring that kind of case. i think we need to recover the courage of theodore roosevelt who challenge challenge the bigt company at this time when he became president, the john rockefellers and the jp morgan's, that he stood up to them and called them. sigh think we nee

extensively, the google ad product is what you or imight the google ad product is what you or i might though it is it effective, it's not exciting. in terms of their dominance in this market, they still attract a heck of a lot of advertising sales. that will continue presumably? absolutely. that's what they have done brilliantly. they have democratised what they are doing to their ad products. more detail on oui’ their ad products. more detail on our website. boeing has come underfire from investors in the wake of the two deadly crashes of its 737 max aircraft. at its annual meeting in chicago, the planemaker faced calls for a boardroom shake—up for failing to foresee safety risks with its best—selling model. airlines have warned that the grounding of the jet could cost them millions of dollars. samira hussain reports from chicago. in the heavy rain, family and friends stood silently, clutching photos of victims from the ethiopian airlines crash last month which killed all 157 people on board. they wanted shareholders and boeing's ceo, dennis muilenburg, to see their faces before head

of war and last october google decided it would not bid on a cloud deal called jet i again the u.s. military involved now there are technical issues with that one but you're seeing a trend know if the military is involved if the u.s. military is involved and conservatives are involved no good and that's a that's a dangerous trend well in so let's separate those two things i mean i see what you're saying so that google employees have obviously done this in a couple different cases right where they've spoken up and said we don't want to be a part of these projects but i think you have to kind of parsis just a little bit because certainly the belief that for instance if that technology is being used and people are dying as the result of it i could understand more somebody saying i don't want to be a part of that as opposed to someone saying well i just disagree with this person's overall belief system therefore they're not entitled to help make decisions about what i should or should not be able to do i'll give you the last word here yeah no i agree with you ben one hundred percent tha

and content and the whole companies and even individual executives at companies like facebook and google legally liable for the content carried on their platforms all of this of course is being done in the. theory to combat the spread of violent and extremist content false information and harmful material aimed at children again that's what we're told the concerns of mass shooting experts and those who want greater regulation kicked into high gear after the recent terror attack in new zealand aimed at muslims the shooter live streamed that massacre on facebook and as in many other recent cases posted an extremist manifesto cited online extremist influencers and then repeated their rhetoric. well meanwhile today the european commission's high level expert group on artificial intelligence published its ethics guidelines for trustworthy ai the commission's work attempted to establish ethical principles on human rights and really there were four ethical principles here number one respect for human autonomy number two prevention of harm three fairness and for explicit billet but according to

transparent and also discuss whether to work on military applications for a so basically to give every google project and the proper security and scrutiny really i guess in going over them before they before they approve them along the lines of what you discussed is going on in europe yes so at this point you know for the week that it lasted employees seem to be fine with the idea of the board in general until there was an announcement made about the appointment of kay coles james so why was that particular name something that created this huge uprising other than the conservative connection. well to me it's the conservative connection you know the bias against conservatives that we see over and over and over again more than twenty three hundred employees of google signed a petition against her appointment to the panel keiko's james as you said she's president of the very conservative group the heritage foundation a very fine group i might add in my opinion the petition called her vocally anti trans an anti l g q also anti immigrant and for good measure a skeptic of climate change so there yo

future related policy development on ethical legal and societal issues related to a guy well meanwhile google has now pulled the plug on its advisory board just one week after announcing its creation the move comes after thousands of employees raise objections about the appointment of kay coles james who also happens to be the president of the conservative heritage foundation joining me now to discuss is conservative commentator steve malzberg hey steve may have been how are you so let's begin here what was the board supposed to do in the week it existed for google when it came to issues well they were supposed to set course on not responsible development of it within the company the board at eight members who were to meet just four times a year quarterly and they were going to discuss issues like facial recognition and fairness in machine learning and and making. a fairer and more transparent and also discuss whether to work on military applications for a so basically to give every google project and the proper security and scrutiny really i guess in going over them before they before they a

so we used to use the google search engine. you're like i'll go right to amazon and you start searching there. amazon had an incredible quarter. they're literally taking the digital dollars for what's called lowest funnel and they have youtube and other things. but they reveal themselves as an advertising company without more. cheryl: they're under pressure with youtube. a lot of brands say you need to do a better job with policing negativnegative content, maybe dangerous content on the web. the european fine, i wonder if we're done with the regulators in europe with regard to google and alphabet. >> not sure about that. they have to think about they're into autonomous driving with w aymo, they need other things to stand up. lauren: on the conference call, it seems that investors and analysts and reporters just kept pressing why is this slowing, why is this metric slowing. they kept getting answers from the company like well, it's because of currency fluctuations. why do you think, besides amazon, it's really slowing? what shou

where does google stand?player and is it sort of gaining enough on cloud revenue as a percent of the overall pie to actually drive your opinion on the stock >> i've seen numbers that suggest they have high single digit market share, probably low teens and others, but it's still growing significantly faster for them but what i think google should do, alphabet should do going forward given the results i definitely think they should give us a little more clarity on cloud revenues and profits, a little more clarity on youtube i think that should help the valuation of the stock in the same way that aws did for amazon i also think its underlevered balance sheet, i think the company should lever up. i'm a big proponent of using leverage to drive equity returns. i think he had could be more aggressive with the share buybacks i think that's probably the most tax-efficient way to reward shareholders going forward as well as i'd probably step on the gas a little bit in terms of the waymo rollout. >> what do we know abou

how google tractor footprints.eason effect this is because you are here this morning, this is an area of expertise. what is google up to and be be worried? we should be worried because google has made it design choice, it has the option to make a default that it is not tracking your location, it is chose not to do that. instead, you would have to go into your phone, surge of all the different permissions of the apps. all the different permissions of the apps, so that you can't be tracked. there is some apps that be tracking evenif there is some apps that be tracking even if you turn off location history. basically, if you got anything running google on it, you're wearing a monitoring device and that can be accessed by law enforcement. in this story is about that element, police and investigators are looking at one particular individual and where he was at a particular time in order to saveif was at a particular time in order to save if he was responsible for a crime. exactly. tech loves to disrupt things. they have

this is something that google has been after for 20 plus years now.o this is something that is at a point where there are a lot of avertisers who are hitting point of saturation of diminishing marginal returns. the other thing happening here is amazon is now a much bigger part of the digital advertising ecosystem. there is greater competition than ever before. if you are looking at this as an optimist you are saying to yourself, google is doing pretty well now that there is even more competition. if you are a pessimist you are looking at this as amazon is dominating product search. it is the number one place consumers go to research anything about retail products they are searching whether it is on or off amazon. and amazon is capturing a greater share of those search ad goods orrom consumer retailers that are selling on any of these market places whether it is amazon or walmart. that to me is a little bit of a warning sign. and really amazon is just getting going with their ad business. they did not have the greatest quarter, growing about 30% when w

mark: google addressing a pretty squeaky wheel.es since the walkout, even before, protesting policies around military work, their work in china. this is an attempt to give them a channel to feel like they can address these internally rather than taking it outside. emily: where they can complain about anything. that wire broke the story the leaders of the walkout wrote an internal email to the company saying they have been retaliated against. one of them who works for you to tube says she was asked to take a sick leave. the other was told to walk away from her a.i. ethics work. these are pretty significant leaders. the company has been active, arguably, ending the military projects. arguably, ending a lot of their work in china. prompting thousands of employees to walk out of their jobs. emily: google has previously said about the walkout -- "we prohibit retaliation in the workplace. employees and teens are commonly given new assignments or reorganized to keep pace with evolving businesses. there has been no retaliation." they are d

up, google feeling the heat after hitting a record high. shares are tumbling following a first quarter earning support. bloomberg news, you can check us out on the .adio app this is bloomberg. ♪ afterhabet shares falling its first quarter missing estimates, sparking concern. some toing shipping digital rivals. for $30eet was looking billion. google is usually the first place consumers go when searching for problems -- products but that has changed with competition amazon. , colin.us to discuss think of the overall take away here? concern about increasing headwinds from the competition. >> first, 17% growth is not horrible. but the search ad market is maturing. they have been after it for 20 plus years, so this is at a point where they are getting diminished returns and i think the other thing is amazon is a much bigger part of the digital advertising ecosystem. if you are looking at this as an optimist, you are saying that google is doing pretty well now that there is even more competition. if you are pessimists, you are looking at this as

good evening, everybody on the i can as a lotus we've just learned somebody who visited google has been diagnosed now with the measles can force roughly double live in san jose where officials just held a news conference rob. what have you learned. >>well that's right granted make him here at the us soccer county health department where the a county health officer doctor sara cody, a brief reporters here this afternoon that what's been happening years that we appear not to have a new case of measles but we have an investigation in connes case more on that in just a moment to what doctor couldn't reveal to us is that they are conducting. what is called contact investigation, we know we have measles in the bay area in a several different counties are at least 2. so those counties are cooperating with each other in what happened here, although we don't know exactly when but out one of these individuals that's been diagnosed with the measles an adult san mateo county resident visit google at some point we're told that this contact investigation has been going on now for about a week with he

why facebook over google >> so, i mean, tremendous respect for google if somebody would have told me in 2012 when google's desktop search volume started going negative because people shifted to apps on their mobile devices if you would have told me in 2012 they could maintain a growth rate of revenue over 20%, i wouldn't have believed it. it's amazing what that management team has been able to pull off however, if you look at the growth rate of google when they were the same size as facebook is today, facebook just posted a quarter growing at 30% same time, google was growing 21% with a higher valuation. in facebook, i look at a company that has a dominant global position in social networking. a dominant global position in private messaging with whatsapp and messenger. i hope we get to talk more about -- >> you think they can continue to monetize that in ways they haven't scratched the surface of >> look what's going on in china with we chat it's a super app that not only is your communication. it's your payments platform, the way you interact with commerce the opportunity for whatsa

google parent alphabet.he company after hitting a 52 week high initially took a hit tonight after its quarterly report showed revenue missed expectations. here are the numbers. alphabet earned $11.90. more than a dollar better than expectations. revenue was more than $36n billor the quarter. that was just about $1 billion below estimates. and with that, the shares initiall sold off after hours tonight. >>> josh lip ton digs a littlee for us. >> reporter: $25.7 billion, that was one big number in alphabet's report. it refers to google's property revenue. it was up 17%. aaron tessler, raymond james, did miss what the street wand to e. that explains some of the disappointment here. as tesla reminds us, that does flect core search and youtube revenue broet as the highest revenue part. cuts remain in alphabet for now because of strong growth given coe any's divide. for "nightly business report," i'm josh pt, san francisco. >>> let's turn to brent phil for hare on alphabet's mixed results and it might mean for the

i bring that up in part as well because kellyanne conway revealed earlier today that both google and twitter have been working with the administration in the recent days to highlight this initiative that is taking place over the weekend. liz? liz: blake, thank you very much. we only have two names higher, eli and pfizer. to the markets, and there's pretty much no denying that what happens after the bell in about 52 minutes will set the trading tone for tomorrow. why would we say that? because mega-names in the tech world are about to unleash their numbers and the releases could be paired with pretty wild ceo conference calls afterward. from payments giant paypal to xilinx which makes silicon chips to facebook and tesla, when it comes to the calls fleshing out the reports, the big question is will ceo mark zuckerberg be in the cross-hairs or cheered by analysts and will chief operating officer sheryl sandberg be on the earnings call. as we await that, the powerful performance the markets gave yesterday helped clock record highs as we said for the s&p and nasdaq. to be sure, it's drive

. >> breaking news, a rare revenue missed on part of google's. company. nearly 7%, actually over 7% right now. this is after it closed at a record high for the first time in nine months. it's really upset that i had a miss. we are going to get more details on google coming up in the shower. >> i make no apologies. i am a union man. [cheering] >> i am with you and i will fly like the devil to make sure you are not blocked, unions are not blocked unfairly by the. chris.david: former vice preside biden kicking off his first 2020 campaign speech just moments ago, is one of the toughest battleground states that he premiered in in pennsylvania and that happens to also be in his hometown. that is where he is from. but he puts himself to an organized crowd and he is claiming union leadership. this is "bulls & bears". i'm david asman. gary, jonathan and zachary here with us today. good to see you all. the president tweeting this in response to biden to secure a labor endorsement in the president's tweet, i will never get the support adduced crazy leader union ship

i use in gmail, google calendar, youtube, google is great.reat on many fronts like search, youtube, their mobile phone, but when it comes to videoconferencing, i think we just spend more time on that. we really care about our customer more than any other vendors. that's why customers like our solution. the feedback is zoom just works anywhere, on any device. i think we allocated more resources on that than any of our competitors. emily: what are the beyondnities you see videoconferencing? eric: i think video is a new voice, right? you look at traditional, i think in the next several years, they will all migrate to cloud-based solutions. i think this is not an opportunity because voice is part of the video. i think there's another growth opportunity. emily: my interview there with zoom founder and ceo eric yuan. for more on the company's ipo, i bring in carl eschenbach who is on the board of the videoconferencing company. sequoia is one of zoom's largest stakeholders. he is with us from the nasdaq in new york. of course, the biggest question h

google, last year when their set of seven topics., when we use ai, we are going to be thinking about this. that was prompted by their contract with the military. that was another employee revolt that actually caused them to back out of that contract. they can satisfy their engineers but continue to get contracts with governments and companies as they move into cloud computing which is, of course, their biggest area of growth outside their core business. caroline: it seems to have become a growing problem for google, being able to get ahead of what their own very large employee base is thinking. mark: i talked to a lot of employees who said there is a market shift. the eighth those would be that they would be transparent inside. and these kind of a collective front. google, for years, had this culture that they had open dialogue, discord, agreements. you talked to a lot of employees and they talk about lack of transparency. that is a fundamental issue that google can't solve. caroline: mark bergen, thank you for your analysis. after m

>>> wrecking news tonight >>> now at 11 am, on the evils, a measles scare at google and the warning that came almost 2 weeks later. >>> and a en eakion muni trains, how it is affecting the commute. ♪ and it's the end of an era for san francisco's longest running musical review, the final curtain call for beach blanket babylon. >> and get ready for the hottest day of the year so far. good evening i'm veronica de la cruz. >> and i'm can dust your, we begin with breaking news of a magnitude 6.0 earthquake in taiwan. >>> this happened less than an hour ago, hitting and east on -- eastern coastal city, there are no reports of damage and no synonymy warnings, people reported hearing a shake in taipei, another local said thwae big shake anotrepotheir rog viy.tomorrs vf fran the public health directo is confirming that a person infected with the measles visited google this month. we are live in mountaw reporting on it, employees had no idea until nearly 2 hours, two weeks later. >> reporter: it is unknown why because google has not responded to a request for comments but nine days is how long it

up, unrest has once again forced google's hand.s is bloomberg. ♪ ethicse: google's ai council was created and disbanded over the course of one week after a dramatic outcry of who was appointed to serve on the panel. google said, "we are ending the council and going back to the drawing board. we will continue to be responsive on the issues that ai raises and will come up with different ways to get outside opinions." through what the backlash is really about. the people on the board? i think it is fundamentally about google's problem has had with dissent inside the company around the issues of ai, ethics, their new cloud division. the main issue was the appointment of the american heritage foundation, a conservative think tank in washington dc. there were several at google who started a physician who thought their positions on transgender issues and climate change were not the right advocate and person to be on the committee. another committee member actually declined the invitation after he saw a lot of back-and-forth on twitter. im

right up for the creepy line but not cross at google crosses the creepy line every day. not only does google cross the creepy line the location of that line you keep shifting well it's an interesting word creepy right because it's a word that connotes horror he didn't say dangerous he didn't say an ethical there's all sorts of words that could have fit in not slot he said creepy and a creep is someone who creeps around and follows you and spies on you for unsavory purposes right that's the definition of a creep you know i don't think the typical ethical person says i'm going to push right up to the line of creepy and stop their you know they say more something like how about we don't get near enough to the creepy line so that we're ever. engaged even pseudo creepy behavior because creepy is really bad you know it's. a creepy mugger is worse than a mugger the mugger wants your money god only knows what the creepy mugger wants it's more than your money and you give google a lot of information you searching for the most private stuff on google you're searching about you kno