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Cookies? Google Is Watching You

If you are an avid internet user, you must have experienced this: You are surfing sites about fairway woods and suddenly you change the topic to iPad applications but are still being bombarded by ads about golf. If this has indeed happened to you, then it’s no coincidence. You are just another victim of Google’s absurd policies.

Here is another scenario that will show you how Google is literally cheating its users. You enter a keyword into Google to check out where your site ranks. And what do you see? Number 1! And then you are brought back down to earth when you search again later, this time not logged in to your Google account, and find out you are nowhere in the search engine reports.

We all know Google dominates the world of online advertising. They are the big Daddy and you can’t do much about that. But are they going too far? Do we need to raise a voice against them? I think we do because a lot of people around the world are getting angry at Google’s policies and have been complaining that Google has gone a bit too far in its domination. You may actually be surprised when you find out how much data Google keeps on you!

Cookies? Cookies Don’t Scare Me!

A person who doesn’t know much about computers will wonder how Google can get so much information about a user. For them, the answer is: Cookies. Harmless as they may sound, they are in fact a very dangerous part of your internet browsing and can pose serious security risks. Most of us do not bother about it and hence let websites create these on our computers. But in the long run, they can be harmful.

A cookie is actually a message that the browser sends to the website you are viewing. It tells the website information such as saved passwords, your identification, whether you have already bought something on the site and things like that. In this way, the websites identify your behavior and many big sites use this behavior