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Google Tracking Frequent Users
BrianGa writes "According to this article, Google has started placing
a counter on its home page for a small number of its most frequent users.
Most Google users do not have it, but a select few now have a counter that notes
the actual number of searches made. For the curious, an explanatory page
linked to the counter reveals that this is a test, or limited-sample experiment
of a new search counting feature."
I have not been able to get to Google for the last week or so. I have checked all the usual suspects like BHO's and other malware...
Is this the next Ultimate Status Symbol for nerds??
Smeghead every day of the week.
'You have searched images.google.com fro Heidi+Klum 4,637 times.'... Hope she's not looking down.
i sure hope they won't combine this with thire marketing, i don't realy want links to penguin porn sites everytime i search for something, since the two things i search for the most is linux and porn ;)
altho linus in a g-string... hmm
I certainly hope they do something like that. I'm an insightful sort of fellow who searches for all sorts of things it turns out aren't available yet.
I'm looking forward to their taking the hint so I can read Terry Prachett in Latin by the light of my reissue of my favorite Alladin Oil Lamp while sitting in my Rubbermaid(tm) Yurt.
Oh, I think maybe you meant trendy people.
That would be different.
KFG
I remember seeing that too and thinking:
Google is such a nice company. They feel the need to write big red letters telling me not to click next. I can trust them. There is no need to read the EULA.
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and their EULA is the clearest i've ever seen, from memory, it actually says words to the effect of "stop! don't just click "next"! this is actually worth reading" in large, friendly letters on the cover.
Am I the only one who imagines these large, friendly letters on the cover to read "DONT PANIC" in future EULA's?
Indeed. They're mostly harmless.
-- Cheers!
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Well I hope they do a better job than Amazon.
.get recommended Barbie's Swan Lake.
I haven't a freakin' clue why they think I might be interested in Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook.
Buy Terry Gilliam's Brasil. .
And what makes them think I use underwear anyway?
KFG
Google Karma: Terrific, due to obsessive searching syndrome
Maybe it's time for a week-long boycott just to show them we *can* get by without them - plus an email campaign to drive the point home.
Maybe they'll shut down for a week to show us we can't get by without them.
Email: slashdot3@FreeMars.org (Address will be abandoned when it gets spam.)
why to i think this would look like
"Other people who searched for a, also searched for b, sex and porn."
and then sets several cookies on my computer. I don't actually care, but it shows how little technical proficiency the fact checkers have. Before making a statement like that I'd make sure that my own web site didn't also set cookies.
Chris Kuivenhoven is a thief, beware
I suppose we could always go back to reading tealeaves. Or chicken entrails, if it comes to that.
Or just picking fleas out of each other's fur; that used to be fun.
I also occasionally surf using telnet to port 80, but I find surfing with WGET to be the most soul-satisfying experience.
Thomas Dz.