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Google Tracking Frequent Users

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the so-are-the-illuminati dept.

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."

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  2. Re:I my late grandmother were to see this... by bahamat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You wrote "it's" where you should've written "its."

    I used it in the sens of "something that is owned by it", which you may notice is called posessive.

    Similarly, you might say:

    John's dog is black. It's eyes are blue.

    See how that works? "it's" is either posessive or "it is". "its" is plural (as in multiple "its").

  3. Re:I my late grandmother were to see this... by bahamat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    in the sens of

    Then again, there's no accounting for my bad spelling.

    in the *sense* of.

  4. Re:I my late grandmother were to see this... by sbszine · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I used it in the sens of "something that is owned by it", which you may notice is called posessive.

    But which doesn't apply to possessive pronouns like his, hers, its, and theirs. English is tough, eh?

    --

    Vino, gyno, and techno -Bruce Sterling

  5. Re:I my late grandmother were to see this... by stoic1337 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's incorrect to use an apostrophe in "its" as a possessive pronoun.