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Does anyone else remember the mass exodus from Geocities when Yahoo suddlenly changed the TOS to say something similar? People like to own their own stuff.

And you are right about the team of lawyers thing, this does seem a bit remiss to have let such a huge mistake go public.

I am wondering why a big company like Google cant hire some good lawyers for reviewing this sort of things???

Why would a company as large as Google not have a team of lawyers and then a team of marketing people and then a team of something else read and re-read anything and everything that goes out; especially something to do with such a large product release?

This seems sloppy and unprofessional and not up to Google's standards. However, it does point out a major problem with internet communications. In a world where everything is about immediacy and getting information out faster than anyone else, we have forgotten how to proofread and double-check.

We need to get back to some of the basic standards of print communication. Once you put it out there, it's there for all the world to see. Of course, you can go back and change it easier and more quickly on the internet, but you can bet that someone has kept a copy of your flawed original and about 50,000 others have posted it in other places.