Let me give you my very recent experience. I have recently searched for 'Email marketing' solutions and finally signed up for iContact.com trial version. After that, whichever website i visit, i see iContact.com advrts via google adsense. I visited both US and Indian websites and this advrt from iContact followed me for almost 3 days on all those websites. Later on, i was google maps to get driving directions for Radisson hotel in MA. I am still continuing to see Advrts from Radisson hotel on all web pages iam browsing. I have seen this behavior even when i do a product search and surprisingly i see emails from these products in my INbox. This happened on Yahoo search. Search Engines are tracking our activities, no doubt, but they are doing it excessively. HOw far they can go? Did any one notice this type of behavior? To what extent should i be worried? What if i do a search on sexual content on Google/Yahoo? Will i be followed wherever i go? Will i receive emails too? Thanks link dev
Wow... I never thought that deep. If it is true, so google is spider us all the time. How about after you clear your browser cookies? Please try and let me know the result.
Yep, I know, but there are a lot people having a fixed IP (like me) It sucks but yeah, I'm not the only one
Of course they do. If they didn't, we'd still have piss-poor search results. G will continue to collect data, and through this, there's no limit to how they can improve the algorithm. ...It has everything to do with cookies.
google picks up several variables and then collects the data. Setting cookies is just one of those variables. If google can colect data to this extent from Internet Explorer, FireFox, Mozilla then you can imagine what google can do with google chrome browser. It collects our data and sells it to marketers in different packages. One such package is to create a lasting impression about a partcular product, so that user retains/remembers the product for a longer period. In my case, google made sure that i didn't forget about icontact and Radisson hotel for atleast 3-4 days after i used their services. Icontact kept on appearing on we pages and requested to upgrade/signup This forum post is about speading awareness and steps we can take to protect ourselves. I will be embarassed, if i get emails on viagra after i attepeted a related search term on google/yahoo. My wife does have access to my emails and she does understand how internet marketing works. Are we loosing privacy?
Hahaha... Would Google really risk doing this and being called out on it? It's already a multi-billion dollar empire, I don't think they want the world against them now.
How could Google possibly know your e-mail address.. Your'e getting paranoid for nothing. They were tracking you using a cookie which probably expired after 3 days. Sites do this all the time!
Even if Google was doing this, they just released a feature in their new browser to prevent all this. Incognito!
They absolutely know about email ids. Atleast this is true for Yahoo as i did receive emails soon after i did a product search. First of all, our email ids are not encrypted on most of the sites we login. Google/Yahoo do have the data on their respective members and we are logged into them all the time. Don't you think they know who you are? Email marketing has matured a lot. You need not subscribe to anything to get spam emails about products. --link dev
Yep.. you got me!.. this thread is just to promote your sig link, right! Nobody can be that much of a dum* As*.
Unless and untill you are not doing something wrong which violates the law, you need nor worry. Let Google track your activities it will be for your good trust me.
Thanks for your response. Do you have anything to respond to the actual topic? I would appreciate, if you can talk on the topic.
Wow thats freaking awesome and scary. Haven't looked at it so closely but I surely will from now on. Will let you all know.