Thanks to many on HN who can't come up with any way to make a living that doesn't involve creepily probing the private data of millions of people, it's all down hill from here.
"We're horrible at our job, but if you give us a few billion more dollars and let us force people to remove their underwear at checkpoints, we promise to do better!"
I doubt it. Even if Google can't use the data they're getting from searches done via that service to target ads to specific people, they're still getting valuable data on what people search for generally.