Google recently released their latest Zeitgeist List of what people are searching for, using their search engine technology. The lists are broken down by region and by subject matter, you can imagine of course that Pamela Anderson still figures quite high on the various lists, topping the UK list is eBay!!
For those that want to research what has been used for in the past, you can review further lists at the Zeitgeist Home page.
On the darker side, anyone that uses Google for searching should realise that unless you’re very clever at hiding your presence on the Internet any searches that you make are recorded somewhere on Google’s server, this will include the words you entered in the search window, the search results, and the pages that you went to from the search results page.
All this information is nicely collated on the Google servers ready to be reviewed by….. well that the question isn’t it who controls the ‘collective’? We already know that the USA government has demanded (and in some instances received) customer data from various USA corporations in its supposed fight against terrorism. We would of course agree in the tracking and reporting of Pedophiles and real terrorists.
Here’s a tale about one persons experience, first reported in January 2006, it makes interesting reading.
So, you may empty your IE cache, you might delete all your cookies every day, you may run various disc washer programs, but if you use a search engine, its more than likely there a nice information trail leading right up to your PC that you won’t have any chance whatsoever of clearing away. Apart for that, enjoy your searching!
Tags: Google, USA, Pamela Anderson, Zeitgeist
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