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Posted by Alex Heney on January 20, 2006, 5:49 pm
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>"WM" blackmail.demand@google.eu wrote in message
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4631924.stm
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>> I zap my Google browser cookies but now I learn from the recent news
>> that Google tracks every inquiry I made including my IP number. I
>> guess there's no way to prevent it.
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>> As I'm on cable and my IP address hasn't changed in months then
>> Google can reliably track my interests, habits, preferences, shop
>> sites, etc etc. I have nothing to hide but I'm not sure I want
>> Google to keep all that data about me.
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>> What good alternatives are there to Google as a regular search
>> engine?
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>What IP address - these are normally negotiated on a per session basis.
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Define "normally".
MANY ISPs give fixed IP addresses as standard with broadband accounts.
And even where they are theoretically dynamic, people who leave their
router on all the time will usually keep the same IP address, even
through reboots, for several months at a time.
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Alex Heney, Global Villager
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