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 yo
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 wouldn't want to get ads targetted things I've been surfing for previously (televisions actually) because I've moved on from that to wanting something new - ie. I wouldn't be getting the ads for stuff I want to buy, only those I had already bought.
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.
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You're not that interesting. (Score:2)
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 yo
Re:You're not that interesting. (Score:3, Insightful)
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 wouldn't want to get ads targetted things I've been surfing for previously (televisions actually) because I've moved on from that to wanting something new - ie. I wouldn't be getting the ads for stuff I want to buy, only those I had already bought.
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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.