Actually I trust Schmidt more after that particular quote because he was warning about the Patriot Act before pretty much anyone but privacy advocates cared:

> "People are treating Google like their most trusted friend. Should they be?"

> "I think judgment matters. If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. But if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines, including Google, do retain this information for some time. And it’s important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act. It is possible that information could be made available to the authorities."

But as I said below, that never got play back then, so we get the incomplete quote everywhere. It took Edward Snowden to make the tech blogs finally change narrative.

Also I'm not sure how an obviously poor sampling of quotes demonstrates much of anything. Even if you were doing some squishy sentiment analysis your study would still be thrown out for poor coverage.