Sorry, but it's true. I'm not either. The internet seems to have made everyone out there think they're being watched, studied, and examined 24/7. As if people really care what you've been searching for any reason beyond showing relevant ads and making search better.
People thinking that there's someone over at Google wringing their hands together and laughing maniacally because they have your recent searches need to get over themselves. They're not spying on you for some nefarious purpose, it's to give you better results. You'd probably be a much happier person if you just dealt with it.
People like their privacy, even their illusion of privacy even when they turn around and give whatever privacy they have away willingly. It's human nature. That google tracks results to give better results in turn? I couldn't care, some people will and do. See the first sentence, it's half fallacy, half reality.
They're not spying on you for some nefarious purpose, it's to give you better results. You'd probably be a much happier person if you just dealt with it.
Yes, but if they do monitor all web surfing and searches and use the results to target adverts, they'll only be serving ads for porn from now on. How is that going to help society?
Seriously for a moment, once you got ads targetted by the site the ads were displayed on, so if I visited 'lawnmowers.com', I'd want to get ads for lawnmowers and garden supplies.
I dunno, I've found Google's targeting to be pretty spot-on, with the exception of Gmail (which is still pretty accurate). I find if I search for something, I'll get ads related to that search, not previous searches.
They don't need to personalise your search when they know what you're searching for - and they do that based on your search keywords. Personalisation is about amending that list based on what you've searched for previously, you disable it by turning off Web History. This is what they're intending to do.
You miss the point. Google is keeping track of us anyway. That we're using google means we're already ok with that. What I'm not ok with is with them messing with my search results. I want the same results from the same query no matter where I am. This makes Google a lot less useful.
Suppose I have a large search history built up at home. One day I google a new term, and get a new and interesting result. The next day I go out of town and want to revisit that site on a public computer. I google the sam
You miss the point. Google is keeping track of us anyway. That we're using google means we're already ok with that. What I'm not ok with is with them messing with my search results. I want the same results from the same query no matter where I am. This makes Google a lot less useful.
Suppose I have a large search history built up at home. One day I google a new term, and get a new and interesting result. The next day I go out of town and want to revisit that site on a public computer. I google the same term I did the night before, and get nothing. That's bad.
Well, then do both sets of searches while logged in to your Google account!
Suppose I have a large search history built up at home. One day I google a new term, and get a new and interesting result. The next day I go out of town and want to revisit that site on a public computer. I google the same term I did the night before, and get nothing. That's bad.
I'm more worried about the opposite. Google knows I'm interested in Ubuntu, so it bumps Ubuntu related stuff in its engine, and I never find out about interesting new stuff in Fedora until I google "linux" from a friend's box.
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People thinking that there's someone over at Google wringing their hands together and laughing maniacally because they have your recent searches need to get over themselves. They're not spying on you for some nefarious purpose, it's to give you better results. You'd probably be a much happier person if you just dealt with it.
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People like their privacy, even their illusion of privacy even when they turn around and give whatever privacy they have away willingly. It's human nature. That google tracks results to give better results in turn? I couldn't care, some people will and do. See the first sentence, it's half fallacy, half reality.
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They're not spying on you for some nefarious purpose, it's to give you better results. You'd probably be a much happier person if you just dealt with it.
Yes, but if they do monitor all web surfing and searches and use the results to target adverts, they'll only be serving ads for porn from now on. How is that going to help society?
Seriously for a moment, once you got ads targetted by the site the ads were displayed on, so if I visited 'lawnmowers.com', I'd want to get ads for lawnmowers and garden supplies.
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They don't need to personalise your search when they know what you're searching for - and they do that based on your search keywords. Personalisation is about amending that list based on what you've searched for previously, you disable it by turning off Web History. This is what they're intending to do.
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You miss the point. Google is keeping track of us anyway. That we're using google means we're already ok with that. What I'm not ok with is with them messing with my search results. I want the same results from the same query no matter where I am. This makes Google a lot less useful.
Suppose I have a large search history built up at home. One day I google a new term, and get a new and interesting result. The next day I go out of town and want to revisit that site on a public computer. I google the sam
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You miss the point. Google is keeping track of us anyway. That we're using google means we're already ok with that. What I'm not ok with is with them messing with my search results. I want the same results from the same query no matter where I am. This makes Google a lot less useful.
Suppose I have a large search history built up at home. One day I google a new term, and get a new and interesting result. The next day I go out of town and want to revisit that site on a public computer. I google the same term I did the night before, and get nothing. That's bad.
Well, then do both sets of searches while logged in to your Google account!
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I'm more worried about the opposite. Google knows I'm interested in Ubuntu, so it bumps Ubuntu related stuff in its engine, and I never find out about interesting new stuff in Fedora until I google "linux" from a friend's box.