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Posted by Alex Heney on January 20, 2006, 5:51 pm
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wrote:
>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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Do you really think they will do so?
>What good alternatives are there to Google as a regular search
>engine?
Quite a few, but I expect they all record very similar details to
Google, and being smaller will have fewer records overall for yours to
be a needle in a haystack.
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Alex Heney, Global Villager
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