By suggesting results, based on your earlier searches and Location, the results get twisted for Algorithm perceived ‘Results’ provide what is expected with the available data, thereby Human desire for results is blocked( as new/innovative ideas are stopped once you the results).It does not ‘think’ with an ‘open mind’ like the human mind
You remain satisfied with the Options available without bothering to go deep.
Google suggest teaches us to be more specific and clear in our ‘search terms’ to be more Creative.
.” Google even helps us complete our searches by suggesting phrases based on the search activities of other users, a feature known asautocomplete. Not surprisingly, the results are often revealing and occasionally entertaining. For this article I have selected a few Google Suggest highlights.
Note that your results will differ depending on what Google location you are using and whether or not you are logged into Google. Moreover, results will change over time, as they represent the presently most used search queries. The results below were found using Google.ca and Google.se, while not being logged into Google….
How To vs. How Not To
This is one of many searches revealing how a single word makes all the difference in the world. While the ‘how not to’ crowd seems to struggle with jealousy, sadness, and laziness (How Not to Live Your Life is a British sitcom), the ‘how to’ folks are ready to take the corporate world by storm, while cooking healthy food (How to Make It in America is an American TV series).
I’m actually surprised that there aren’t more tech-related suggestions for the ‘how to’search query.
Is It Safe vs. Is It Dangerous
Is It Right vs. Is It Wrong
Interestingly, ‘is it wrong to’ is most popular when searched all by itself, closely followed by concerns around sexual orientation and activities. People searching for ‘is it right’ on the other hand, seem to wonder about less trivial questions.
Can I vs. Can You
What I found interesting about this search is how the results correlate. In case you wonder,Can You Run It is a website that tells you whether or not your computer meets the system requirements of a given game.
After these fun comparisons, let’s have a closer look at some solo searches.
Despite your knowing them and installing software to block them these trackers still follow you.
” Mozilla introducedCollusion, an add-on for the Firefox browser that shows you how companies are tracking you as you surf the Web. A cool visual demonstration of the software illustrates all the links that form as you crisscross just a few popular sites online, including IMDB, the New York Times and the Huffington Post. The software shows the connections between sites you visit and third-party tracking and advertising networks such as Doubleclick and Scorecard Research. It makes plain the invisible web that has been woven through the Web.
The software was created as a protoype by Atul Varma, who explained in a blog postthat he “didn’t know a lot about tracking myself, so I whipped up a Firefox add-on called Collusion to help me visualize it better,” he wrote. “The results were a littleunsettling.”
Collusion will help you understand how you’re being tracked online, but it won’t stop it from happening. For that, you can disable “third-party” cookies on your browser and install other add-ons such as TrackerBlock. A number of internet giants have alsoannounced support for a “do not track” button, though that option may not become available until the end of the year.”
“The PrivacyChoice Chrome extension opts you out permanently from behavioral ad targeting by over 150 companies. While this does not block tracking, in many cases (but not all) these companies will refrain from collecting information from your computer when the opt-out is in place.”
Google seems bent on getting your Private information whatever be the cost.
It is interesting to read the New privacy information in Google, where it never says what you want to know nor you become any wiser what Google is talking about Privacy.Please read my blog on this.(under ‘internet’)
Like the Safari compromise, the IE9 compromise involves cookies — small bits of code that Web sites put into your Web browser. Those cookies usually don’t contain any personal information, but can keep track if you’ve visited a particular Web site so you don’t have to log in again every time you come back to the site. (Think how annoying it would be if you had to re-enter your Facebook ID every time you came back to Facebook, for instance.)
BSNL is offering free dialup internet connection for a short time. It is to woo more people to use internet. Even though bsnl dialup internet connection is slow, compared to bsnl broadband connection, it is better than nothing during emergency. There is no registration and is free for all landline customers for few months.
This is how you can access the BSNL dailup connection. First, connect your computer with your telephone line, by the way you need a modem. Then create you a new internet connection in Windows XP going to control panel-Network connections– create a new connection. For user name or user identification use your telephone number without zero in the STDcode+yournumber. Eg if you are in Bangalore and your number is 12345678, your userid would be 8012345678. And your password would be your phone number 12345678. You can connect to BSNL dialup internet connection with the all India netone access number 172222.
Even though it is free, you have to pay for the local call telephone charges for the duration of your internet usage.
Google‘s privacy Policy Information is like a Bikini,it coceals more than it reveals.
Google wants to store your personal information for the Samaritan service of helping the Society such as identifying disease, correlating data and helping the Society run smoothly.
Your Data becomes anonymous after 9 months and IP address cookies are deleted after this period.
You have the solemn assurances of Google on this.
The Google also will not(?) share your information with any one including advertisers or market Researchers.
You’re about to go out for dinner and have to choose between two identical-looking restaurants on the same street. One is full, the other empty. You’ll probably choose the bustling restaurant, and when it comes to Google Search, we often use the same principle when selecting which results to give you. To bring you the most relevant results for each search query, we look at the usage patterns of millions of people using Google every day.
It is by analyzing these search patterns via our logs data that our engineers are able to improve the search algorithms that determine the order in which our search results appear. If our engineers can see that people are consistently clicking on the top result for any given query, they know they are doing something right. If people are hitting “next page” or typing in another query, they know they’re not delivering the results that people are looking for, and can then take action to try and improve the search algorithms.
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Have you ever wondered what happens when you type your query into the Google search box and what data we store about that search?
Let’s take a simple search like “cars.” When someone types the word “cars” into the Google search engine, the request gets sent from that user’s computer over the internet to our computers, which look for the right search results. Once our computers have found the results, they send these back to the user’s computer, all in a fraction of a second.
We then store some data about this exchange: the search query (“cars”), the time and date it was typed, the IP address and cookie of the computer it was entered from, and its browser type and operating system. We refer to these records as our search logs, and most websites store records of visits to their site in a similar way.
Here’s what a typical log entry at Google looks like:
But what does this all mean?
IP address:
123.45.67.89 is the IP address assigned to the user’s computer by his or her service provider. Just like other websites, when you ask Google for a page (a search results page, for example), we use your computer’s IP address to ensure that we get the right results back to the right computer.It’s important to remember that IP addresses don’t say exactly where an individual user is, or who they are. In fact, some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) give users a different IP address every time they log onto the web. The most Google can tell about a user from his computer’s IP address is that user’s general location (for example, Boston) and possibly the ISP they use to connect to the Internet. Only the ISP (who actually controls the user’s account) can match an individual with an IP address.
Time and date:
25/Aug/2011 10:15:32 is the date and time the user typed the query into Google.
Search query:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cars is the search query, in this case “cars.”
740674ce2123a969 is the unique cookie ID assigned to a browser the first time a user visits Google. Like an IP address, a cookie doesn’t tell Google who a user actually is or where they live – it only identifies a computer. You can delete these cookies at any time in your computer’s browser.
Time limits on data retention
We anonymize IP addresses after 9 months and alter the cookie numbers in our logs permanently after 18 months. This breaks the link between the search query and the computer it was entered from and is similar to the way in which credit card receipts replace digits with hash marks to improve customer security.
Here is what an IP address could look like in our logs after 9 months: 123.45.67.XXX. After 18 months, the cookie will be replaced by a newly-generated cookie number.
Google was the first major search engine to announce time limits on the retention of logs data, and we’re pleased that others in the industry have followed our lead.
Just like cookies in the offline world, online cookies don’t last forever. Google cookies expire after two years. Additionally, Google has always allowed people to use its services without cookies (though this may mean losing the use of some features or functions of particular products).
Why we store search logs
We use search logs for many purposes, for example, to keep our services secure, develop new features that make search faster and more relevant, and even to predict outbreaks of disease.Learn more
It’s good to know what’s stored in a search log when you search on Google. Read the next topic: How ads are targeted by Google.
Some of the things we learn from how people search can be useful for communities all over the world.
Disease
Imagine that somewhere in a remote place a man goes to Google and types in [fever]. Seconds later somebody nearby searches for [muscle ache]. And when more and more people from the same region start doing a similar search, it’s likely that something’s up.
Sometimes general patterns of search behavior match up closely to things happening in the offline world. When those correlations are strong, it can be possible to use spikes in a particular search to understand real-world behavior more quickly than traditional methods can notice a change. Using the aggregated searches of millions of people, we can help spot flu outbreaks or changes in economic conditions, giving professionals more time—and better information—to make decisions.
In 2008, we found that some search terms are good indicators of actual flu activity. It turns out that traditional flu surveillance systems take between one and two weeks to collect and release surveillance data. But Google search queries can be counted automatically very quickly. By making our flu estimates available each day, Google Flu Trends can provide an early-warning system for outbreaks of influenza. We have used the same insight to look at patterns of other diseases and have created an early warning system for dengue fever.
It’s important to remember that Google Flu Trends can never be used to identify individual users because we rely on anonymized, aggregated counts of how often certain search queries occur each week. We rely on millions of search queries over time, and the patterns we observe in the data are only meaningful across large populations of Google search users.
Economics
By studying the way people search, we can also pick up on other important trends, like changes in the economic climate. For example, the Bank of England tracks search trends related to consumer behavior in the United Kingdom. By watching out for changes in demand for goods, mortgages and concerns about inflation, the Bank hopes to improve the speed of economic reporting and the responsiveness of fiscal decision making.
Google Correlate
Because we believe there are so many things that can be learned from aggregated search activities, we’ve introduced Google Correlate. This allows researchers to upload their own data series and see a list of search terms whose popularity best corresponds with real-world trends.
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