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https://www.pcmatic.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/pcmatic-fallback.png19201080On February 1, 2005, Google announced record revenues of $1.032 billion and profits of $303 million. Just like everyone else in the world, I was blown away. What a great company! The stock market seemed to agree since Google's stock price hit a record high after their earnings announcement. But there's something that has been bothering me and many others in the antispyware community about the search engine juggernaut. And that's Google's ties to spyware.