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Originally Posted by 777 geek
I heard some news that Google are going to scour the web for information about what you search and what you buy and use that to form a profile of you that will be publically accessible.
How are they going to collect this information?
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Are going to? You mean they don't do most of that already? I'd be very surprised if not.
I would think that every time you type the words "bad astronomy moon hoax" into a Google search box, a little counter next to the terms "bad astronomy," "astronomy," "moon," "hoax," and "moon hoax" get incremented. Then those numbers get sold to people.
Now, that they'd form a profile of an individual and publicly distribute that seems very unlikely, especially given their history for being picky about privacy. Maybe they'd let you build your own profile, and do the search, and then approve what gets displayed....