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Maybe this belongs in the "I love the Internet" thread....but if anything it kinda makes me hate the internet
...but part of me is really glad that Google have saved all of my searches since 2006 and are now allowing me access them.
They're even pretending to allow me delete them.
Two Thousand and Fucking Six.
Every single search.
11259 of them.
Mental.
It's like somebody who knows me really well put together a collage of embarassing photos of me....as a present like.
https://www.google.com/history
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-- evil_giraffe
22/02/12 at 22:44
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evil_giraffe
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Posted : 24/02/12 at 13:29 |
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You sound worried,
Signed up or signed in?
If you have signed up for a google/gmail account, and are signed into this account, and search for something, it appears to me that they store this information forever.
Depending on your browser settings (cookies on or off or something like that) you will be signed into gmail automatically everytime you use your computer.
I'm not really comfortable about google knowing everything about me, but I'm too lazy to turn off cookies and sign in everytime I want to read my gmail and sign out again afterwards.
If you don't have gmail, or are the type of person who is happy to sign in and out of your account every time you check your mail, they probably don't store the searches against your name (they probably could if they really wanted though). In these circumstances I'd say it's likely that they store the searches against the IP addresses and target the advertising that way.
I think they claim to allow you disable the logging of this information but I'd say it's still there on the system somewhere.
I don't really know how the internet works to be honest.
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From :
Maedhbh
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Posted : 29/02/12 at 18:20 |
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| Hey it's 'technically' all just porn right.......
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From :
Maedhbh
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Posted : 29/02/12 at 18:20 |
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| Hey it's 'technically' all just porn right.......
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From :
number10
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Posted : 01/03/12 at 11:44 |
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Hey, it's 'technically' all just porn right......
(Fuck, there's a weird echo around here...)
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From :
snapshot
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Posted : 02/03/12 at 10:48 |
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I was never really a Michael Jackson fan, but:
"One morning MJ came in with a new song he had written overnight. We called in a guitar player, and Michael sang every note of every chord to him. "here's the first chord first note, second note, third note. Here's the second chord first note, second note, third note", etc., etc. We then witnessed him giving the most heartfelt and profound vocal performance, live in the control room through an SM57.
He would sing us an entire string arrangement, every part. Steve Porcaro once told me he witnessed MJ doing that with the string section in the room. Had it all in his head, harmony and everything. Not just little eight bar loop ideas. he would actually sing the entire arrangement into a micro-cassette recorder complete with stops and fills. "
Crikey... I think I'll sell my guitar.
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From :
number10
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Posted : 02/03/12 at 13:52 |
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| There is no doubt that he was a musical genius. But he was a mad one too!
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From :
ttemme
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Posted : 05/03/12 at 23:02 |
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| i find i don't really care 'bout mickey j. am i weird of somethin'? by the way, what does he have to do with goo'le history? ah i see - that was the name of one of h's albums. or should i say ablums?
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From :
hydra
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Posted : 12/06/12 at 15:44 |
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"Apple will also run its own crowdsourced traffic service, alerting iOS users to congestion when travelling. "We're using anonymous, real-time crowdsourced data right from our iOS users," said Forstall – a feature seen already in third-party apps like Waze and Research In Motion's BlackBerry Traffic, but leveraging the large installed base of iPhone users in the US."
That's a great development. I was looking to get to a mate's house in busy Dublin traffic last Thursday and could have done with a way around.
Mad how fast technology moves.
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From :
hydra
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Posted : 12/06/12 at 15:47 |
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Do Not Track Safari
In a further cut at Google, the next version of the MobileSafari browser will also incorporate "Do Not Track" functionality, which makes it harder for advertisers such as Google's DoubleClick network to aim higher-paying targeted ads at users based on their browsing history. MobileSafari dominates mobile web browsing, used for 64% of all such surfing according to NetMarketShare. Without the ability to serve targeted ads, DoubleClick - and so Google - will see lower payments per ad served on iPhones, a trend that is already evident in its pay-per-click revenues.
Microsoft, which has made no secret of its antipathy to Google, is also promoting Do Not Track for the next version of Internet Explorer on the desktop.
Other changes highlighted during the keynote were improved privacy controls to match those in Google's Android, with users able to control what personal data apps are able to access.
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From :
hydra
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Posted : 12/06/12 at 16:31 |
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| Yeah there's been apps like Waze available for a couple of years aswell, but I gather they rely on algorithms and the like.
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From :
hydra
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Posted : 12/06/12 at 16:41 |
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| I find googlemaps very buggy when driving, keeps losing me, the best sat nav I've had is the NavFree app, but the updates are like 200mb and I've only got a 6gb harddrive on the phone. Still works fine but I won't be updating it anymore. And it works offline
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From :
evil_giraffe
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Posted : 12/06/12 at 16:59 |
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I paid 16 quid for copilot because it was supposed to be the best sat nav.
I find Googlemaps way better. Never had problems with it losing me, I don't stray off the beaten track very much though.
You can cache the maps for use off line....I've never bothered though.
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From :
tornaxx
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Posted : 12/06/12 at 18:25 |
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| I bought a map in Eason's years ago but I rarely use it. I live about a mile from work and shure...where else would I be going?
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From :
tricky
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Posted : 25/06/12 at 15:26 |
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| sat nav's drive me mad, I also hate people who don't work out what way they're going before they get into the car.
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From :
number10
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Posted : 25/06/12 at 17:46 |
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| Sat navs are great when you're in a fucking huge estate in somewhere like Lucan and not even the locals can tell you where the fuck you're supposed to be going, or how to get there...
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From :
tricky
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Posted : 25/06/12 at 18:23 |
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| sure, but the problem is the people driving along major ish roads with their eyes stuck to the sat nav rather then the fucking road in front of them.
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