Watch What You Google!

Discussion in 'Latest Hip News Stories' started by skip, Aug 1, 2013.

  1. desert-rat

    desert-rat Senior Member

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    I tried all kind of searches , no one came to the door .
    p.s. maby I should down load rec.s for cooking qunoa in a rice cooker .
    p.p.s. I did a search for cheep eyeglasses for another thread on this forum , and on ever site I log on to I see a pair of cheep eye glasses .
     
  2. odonII

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    It doesn't look like it was some grand NSA op' - it was a little more mundane than that.

    All that would happen is Google would earn more money and pay less tax.

    Is that what you want?
     
  3. Vanilla Gorilla

    Vanilla Gorilla Go Ape

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    Duckduckgo is a google custom search engine hosted by Amazon
     
  4. desert-rat

    desert-rat Senior Member

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    I am seeing pressure cookers on some of the sites i visit along with cheep glasses . They do put cookies on your files , I guess its time to kill disk my drives and re load my operating system .
    p.s. If any one wants a link , its killdisk dot com
     
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  6. desert-rat

    desert-rat Senior Member

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    There are easy ways of getting rid of cookies . I kill disk to get rid of virous , trojans , ect. Its a hazzard of down loading a few torrents . You only kill disk a drive if you have ever thing backed up , and know what you are doing .
     
  7. Mike Suicide

    Mike Suicide Sweet and Tender Hooligan

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    a reverse search shows combinations of the words "pressure cooker bomb" googled over 100,000 times in the last month. I guess the cops are gonna be real busy.
     
  8. odonII

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    You were 'on it' with regards to the earlier article and how it actually 'went down'...is this you having a bit of a joke? There is nothing worse than 'humour'/'disingenuousness' getting in the way of a serious subject
     
  9. drumminmama

    drumminmama Super Moderator Lifetime Supporter

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    Try deleting cookies. That should change the ads for a while.
     
  10. 6-eyed shaman

    6-eyed shaman Sock-eye salmon

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    Alternative media talk show hosts were warning us about Google for a long time. Looks like they were right all along.
     
  11. odonII

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    Like whom? Democracy now? Any e.gs? (just to read how accurate they were. )
     
  12. 6-eyed shaman

    6-eyed shaman Sock-eye salmon

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    Infowars. They've been going on and on about how google keeps tabs on what you look up for a long time. I've just been too lazy to try a different search engine. But now I'm more inclined to change to a more private search engine.

    That said, I think this news story is gonna cause google's stock to drop value big time.
     
  13. Resistance isn't futile

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  14. odonII

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    Infowars thinks there are 4 million government CCTV camers trained on our every movement.
    Paranoid people saying: 'They are watching us' isn't prescient, imho.
    Sure Google 'keeps tabs' on what anonymous people do - that's their job isn't it? That's what their search engine is all about?
     
  15. 6-eyed shaman

    6-eyed shaman Sock-eye salmon

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    I'm not the biggest fan of info wars, and I don't see eye to eye with Alex's fear salesmanship.

    It's a search engine's job provide people with relevant and helpful websites. Not to monitor and store a record database of what individuals search for. Thats privacy invasion. I can understand google keeping track of popular key word search trends in certain time durations, but that's way different.

    This article posted by the thread starter proves Google is far more paranoid than Infowars will ever be.
     
  16. odonII

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    It seems as if it wasn't 'Google' that alerted the authorities, but a 'concerned' citizen. So, ultimately, it wasn't anything that was entered in 'Google' that alerted the authorities. 'Google' seems not to have cared what was entered into their search engine. They have even been criticised for thinking 'child porn' is not their concern. What are they doing about that?
     
  17. NoxiousGas

    NoxiousGas Old Fart

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    I guess you don't fully understand how Googles search engine works.
    They don't use keywords as such, they use a sites relative traffic to determine it's placement in the results. The more cross-referenced links a site has and the amount that those links are utilized are what determine placement in the results, unless you pay to be at the top of the results.

    So of a necessity Google has to track what people search for and track the referring links for the sites that do meet the search criteria.
    So they use keywords as the means to scan a webpage for relevant data to your search, but use website traffic and referring links to determine the import or relevance of a site in regards to the specific search.

    If they only logged keywords and not websites, then the Google search engine would not work the way it does. It was the utilization of referring links that made Google revolutionary as a search engine because ultimately it is the internet users who determine the ranking of search results by virtue of the ongoing traffic.

    Logging only keywords would yield you lots of results, most of them irrelevant or dead sites. Googles approach only ranks those sites that are most likely to contain the information you want, and that is based on the experience of other internet users. The more relevant a sites info, the more often that site will be linked and referred to, therefore it would gain a higher placement in the search results.

    I know I'm rambling, basically if Google only utilized keywords, you would get a ton of useless search results.
     
  18. odonII

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    Google ranks 'Hipforums' quite highly when looking for something 'hip' ...
     
  19. AmyDaugherty

    AmyDaugherty Banned

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    i dont know why the page isnt getting uploaded at all here, it seems like there is some error related to it now...
     
  20. GLENGLEN

    GLENGLEN Banned

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    Indeed, At The Very Top...:2thumbsup:



    Cheers Glen.
     

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