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Google search gets personal (2005)

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> Addressing consumer privacy, Google said that search history data is password-protected and stored securely on its servers.

This is Google's real innovation -- deflecting privacy concerns with irrelevant statements about security.

Haha, I can't count how often a company, when asked about its privacy, says that it's protected using "military-grade encryption."

“Our data centers were framed with organically and sustainably raised pine 2x4s. The doors are framed with English willow, known by dowsers world wide to be the finest available”

Are the 2x4s military grade? Basically, sourced from the cheapest seller?

One reason why Google spends so much on security is because they collect so much. Imagine if they got pwned. Literally everything about every person in the world leaks. Like everything

> Imagine if they got pwned.

Like when the NSA tapped the unencrypted wires between Google servers.

It's interesting to realize what is standard nowadays was actually a novel invention at some point in time.

> new Google account will tap into the "cookie," or data file, already associated with an individual's computer.

This made me laugh. Now every site except HN has some Google scripts and cookies on it.

> But it may reawaken people to the fact that there are search privacy issues

LoL they don't still know I don't like those ZDNet, DZone, Geeksforgeeks links, and those medium blogs using too much emojis.

Is this some bug? I posted this days ago. Not '2 hours ago' ?

Posts sometimes get "re-upped" if it was a good post that just failed to gain traction. When it gets re-upped, the time gets reset. I'm not sure if that's what happened here, but maybe.

Are you using some app which uses HN api to use HN ? It could be of problem.

No. I posted this via Firefox. It even got submitted. When I checked yesterday, it had zero comments so I didn't look into it. Now it's on the front page.

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