Google changes Buzz privacy settings again

From CNET News.com: Having launched its new Buzz service last week, melding some mimicry of Twitter and Facebook, Google seemed to take a page straight from the latter's Beacon of customer service by creating start-up settings that were anything other than comfortable, anything other than private.

This seemed obvious to many. Now, having been buzzed by feedback from annoyed users and commentators, Google announced on its blog Saturday that it will make radical changes to the Buzz start-up experience over the next few days.

In a post by Gmail and Google Buzz Product Manager Todd Jackson, Google says that it has been listening "loud and clear."

Firstly, and really quite importantly, Google confesses to being taken aback that people were rather upset to be already set up with a group of people to follow. Jackson's post suggests that Google had never really considered people might just want to check Buzz out first before having a terribly wise machine already pick out some followers and make that list public.

Thursday, the company made the option of a little more--well, a little-- privacy more obvious. Oh, yes, a slightly more visible button telling you that you can, should you want to, switch the darned thing off.

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