Hello All,
There is an article in BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/6972079.stm about how search engines record details of users' search patterns.
I am curious to know, how do search engines get user details when a person uses the search facility. Normally only the IP address of the computer is available and that too changes dynamically. So except for city location of the computer, how do they know the user details?
Rony.
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Rony wrote:
There is an article in BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/6972079.stm about how search engines record details of users' search patterns.
I am curious to know, how do search engines get user details when a person uses the search facility. Normally only the IP address of the computer is available and that too changes dynamically. So except for city location of the computer, how do they know the user details?
Log into gmail and then open google search in a new tab. You'll notice that the search page shows you as logged-in in the top right corner. That could be one way to track usage.
Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
Rony wrote:
There is an article in BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/6972079.stm about how search engines record details of users' search patterns.
I am curious to know, how do search engines get user details when a person uses the search facility. Normally only the IP address of the computer is available and that too changes dynamically. So except for city location of the computer, how do they know the user details?
Log into gmail and then open google search in a new tab. You'll notice that the search page shows you as logged-in in the top right corner. That could be one way to track usage.
Imagine; people logging in and then searching.
On 9/4/07, Rony ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
I am curious to know, how do search engines get user details when a person uses the search facility. Normally only the IP address of the computer is available and that too changes dynamically.
There are connections with static IP's too. Besides what Vivek said. Then again there's google desktop search. Your mails in gmail and so many other google services. I believe live search and yahoo search fall under the same too.
mehul wrote:
On 9/4/07, Rony ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
I am curious to know, how do search engines get user details when a person uses the search facility. Normally only the IP address of the computer is available and that too changes dynamically.
There are connections with static IP's too. Besides what Vivek said. Then again there's google desktop search. Your mails in gmail and so many other google services. I believe live search and yahoo search fall under the same too.
Thank God I don't have all this in my system.
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