@OS Reload
I won't take this as a privacy issue because the results would be only from your friends and that too only if you are logged in to FB.
The thing about google is that, they grab all your email data and manipulate with it so as to suggest you ads. If you have observed, when you open an email in gmail, all the text based ads would be related to your email content. For example, one of my friends sent me an invite for his marriage with the title "wedding bells" and when i opened that email, i could see all the ads on the side related to marriage. That's what I would call scary. I don't want Google to grab my personal data and play with it.
The difference between MS and Google is, MS might store user data, but Google uses the data for its own manipulation in addition to just storing it. I don't have control over that. Frankly, for users like me, its ok, but if there is any confedential data which you want to send over email, may be SSN or something else, that's where it gets scary.
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