The Register reports on a recent poll finding that "More than three quarters of web surfers don't realize Google records and stores information that may identify them." While I can't vouch for the validity of the poll, it certainly seems…
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Katie Hafner of the New York Times writes how some Internet users have changed their search habits now that concerns about government surveillance of web seaches has reached the forefront of the public mind. Among the many anecdotes related in…
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Following up on the recent Wired News article on how to protect the privacy of your search engine usage, Danny Sullivan has prepared a much more detailed description of the kinds of tracks left behind when using a search engine,…
Given that concerns over search engine privacy have finally gone mainstream, Wired News provides a brielf article on How to Foil Search Engine Snoops. Check it out.
Microsoft has announced that it plans to enter the search advertising market, creating their own advertising system to rival Google and Yahoo. Microsoft's "improvement" is to by allow advertisers to aim ads on its search pages to users based on…
Read More Microsoft Plans to Sell Search Ads – Privacy Concerns?
Of all the blog postings on Google's launch of a personalized home page, I think TechDirt is the only one grokked it correctly:Google.. Yawn... Launches.. Yawn.. Personalized Google At the media-only PR show today named the "Google Factory Tour" (to…
It seems that Philipp Lenssen has figured out how to surreptitiously add searches to my Google Search History:If you have the Google My Search History activated, check if you find an entry today for the search query “Google Blogoscoped sneaked…
Google has released a beta version My Search History to enable you to “find information you thought you lost.” After you login using your Google Account (e.g., your Gmail login), a search history link will be added to the upper…
[via The Unofficial Google Weblog] A Wired piece, "What Search Sites Know About You," discusses privacy issues surrounding search engines that also accept site registration and collect personal information: As operators of the most popular search engines roll out more…
Google Blogoscoped has an interesting post on the potential problems of personalized search, including (a) as users change their behavior, relying on prior behavior becomes less accurate, (b) users don't like to login, (c) users don't always want localized searches,…
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