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Originally Posted by multiweb
I have absolutely no problem with that. Google is a search engine. If you use it then yep, they track your search terms. Also every single thing I say or post online or upload is publicly visible. The only issue (I think) are tracking cookies set by a third party website that I'm not aware of and that collect data on my internet browing preferences without my knowledge. Does FB need to know I'm going on IIS next or even do some banking online?  |
You are confusing the google websearch company with the google "we sell advertisements on your webpage to make money" company
Google uses a webcrawler to browse the web and index data, this is called googlebot.
Google uses shared code on websites and cookies on your machine to track your browsing pattern on the web, this is google analytics. You do not even have to visit google.com for this data collection to occur, you just need to visit a page with the google analytics code implemented. About half of the worlds top 10,000 webpages have google analytics code written into their webpages.