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:: Thursday, August 29, 2002 ::
Tell me more about the 36 year cookie, please...
Google sets a cookie on our computers that lives for 36 years?
So says Daniel Brandt, who hates Google and set up a website to complain about it (but when I last checked, his website was down.)
"When you search for something at Google, it saves your search terms and associates them with a cookie that is set to live on your machine for 36 years. Brandt fears that law enforcement officials could muscle Google into divulging all the terms you've ever searched for. Those terms could be "a window into your state of mind," and are therefore a clear violation of your privacy, he says."
I test Web sites because I'm a Quality Assurance Engineer and an SEO consultant. One of my latest clients has a medical Web site devoted to the penis and other parts of the male and female sexual anatomy. I need to run searches on the keyword "penis" periodically in Google and other search portals. Should I be worried?
Read more about Google's detractor here in Meet Mr. Anti-Google
A crusading webmaster says the popular search engine's page-ranking algorithm is "undemocratic."
:: posted by Kim Krause Berg on 8/29/2002 01:18:57 PM
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