El Pit wrote on Nov 2, 2011, 11:37:
Beamer wrote on Nov 2, 2011, 10:18:
Yes, sifting it, aggregating it and serving you ads based upon it.
More than this, it even influences the results of your search. Try searching the same word/phrase on two different machines (like yours and your girlfriend's/wife's). We found out that we got different results. Even this is influenced by your former use of google.
Yeah. And when I read a few hockey articles on Yahoo it will start putting them in the top news for me. Thinks like this can be convenient.
It's only when it's forcibly tied to my real name that it bothers me, which is why I hate Google right now. They forcibly try to combine all your logins so that your YouTube account is tied to your gmail, etc. I don't want that.
But if you want to track me as a number sure, whatever. Just don't be stupid like AOL and leak that out as proof that it can't be traced.