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Google on Search privacy and personalized search

Google on Search privacy and personalized searchGoogle is reaching out and letting us know that they honestly do care about privacy, and are putting continued efforts in place to protect their users.

The Google blog has issued another video that talks about their privacy practices. The first one was all about Google collecting IP addresses, cookies and search queries. This one looks into improving search results through personalized search and learning how users work.

In the video, a Google support engineer takes us through the benefits of personalized search, and the privacy tools associated with searching. It talks about security concerns that people have had, and clarifies how personalized search through web history works with the user to obtain better search results while privacy is protected.

Do we feel a little more at ease about using Google's personal search? Oh Yes.

Who do you feel protects users search information more?


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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do. Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game. The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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