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Think before you use search engine by sukhpreet anand, Network Admin/System Admin, Kayako Infotech

Think before you use search engine

By : sukhpreet anand, Network Admin/System Admin, Kayako Infotech
Industry : Telecom/ISP Functional Area : New Technologies
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The friendly search engines on the internet know a lot about you, more than what you think. Whenever you search something on the net, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Live Search engines not just search and fetch you results, they also store a lot of information about every query you make.

This data is then archived to find out patterns about search requests from users. Basically, this means the search engines can exactly know the IP address where the query came from and can map this to the particular computer or user.  Just imagine what will happen if this data falls into the wrong hands!

So the next time you search something, think. It knows your every move!!

 Top Comment : Siva Sankar   | 05 30 2009 06:34:31 +0000
Nice insight Ms. Sukhpreet, yes all the search engines have this pattern and every time there is query from your side it records the IP address and if it is done on a regular basis, one can know a whole lot of information....thanks for sharing the article.....
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  Commented by  Vinay Pandey, Software Developer    | 04 21 2010 06:55:12 +0000 
Nice information but I think that this information is stored to analyse indentify the pattern and make our web experience better.we have to have faith in those search engines that they dont let some abc to have access to it. and even if someone can access it it would be like finding grain from the beach.
  Commented by  Vineet Prakash, Sales/BD Manager, Tata Power    | 06 02 2009 10:54:44 +0000 
Thanks for sharing the information sukhpreet...never knew so much is there when we just do a simple query on the net.
  Commented by  Shashank Gupta, MBA ( Marketing )    | 06 01 2009 18:40:55 +0000 
thanks for sharing this info...
  Commented by  Vijetha. Bhat, Student, Student    | 06 01 2009 17:34:25 +0000
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Thanks for the information. I use search engines atleast once a day. One cant stop using it coz of this reason.
  Commented by  Sultan M Shahabuddin, Software Developer, ComViva Technologies Ltd    | 06 01 2009 09:07:51 +0000 
Nice info shared.
  Commented by  Siva Sankar, Project Manager, HP    | 05 30 2009 06:34:31 +0000
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Nice insight Ms. Sukhpreet, yes all the search engines have this pattern and every time there is query from your side it records the IP address and if it is done on a regular basis, one can know a whole lot of information....thanks for sharing the article.....
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