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2013-07-14
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@ Quezon City, Philippines
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2013-07-14
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@ Southerrn Finland
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2013-07-15
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@ Abidjan
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It's good I don't have a habit of googling for stuff unsuitable for children but still... Think about the cases where that happens
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2013-07-15
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@ Gothenburg in Sweden
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2013-07-15
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@ Southerrn Finland
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Why are u suprised??? Did you really think google is your friend?
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2013-07-15
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@ Ruhrgebiet, Germany
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Yes, completely different google accounts (in fact I was not even logged in google on the laptop),
This might be something that's known generally but I just came by this today.
How it happened; My son asked me if I have been surfing with his Nexus 7 lately, as it was suggesting words on google search window that I did actually search for earlier this morning.
However, I had been using my laptop to do that, not the tablet !!
Speculation; as both devices are in the same WLAN, which is NATted to outside world, google is storing my IP address and as a shortcut showing the previous queries to any host accessing google afterwards using he same apparent IP address
Now this is really bad behaviour, as there is no guarantee that a particular IP address belongs to any given device after some time has passed, it might well be given to somebody on completely different town, even different country.
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2013-07-15
, 19:50
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@ Gothenburg in Sweden
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Of course not, dont't be silly. They are there to make money from me. Usually there is a tradeoff, they get stuff from me and I get something in return.
What I thought is that they would be more careful, as this is nothing to do with friendliness.
Being such global hoarder of data they should consider carefully what to leak outside, as that will damage their reputation.
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2013-07-15
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2013-07-15
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@ india
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How it happened; My son asked me if I have been surfing with his Nexus 7 lately, as it was suggesting words on google search window that I did actually search for earlier this morning.
However, I had been using my laptop to do that, not the tablet !!
Speculation; as both devices are in the same WLAN, which is NATted to outside world, google is storing my IP address and as a shortcut showing the previous queries to any host accessing google afterwards using he same apparent IP address
Now this is really bad behaviour, as there is no guarantee that a particular IP address belongs to any given device after some time has passed, it might well be given to somebody on completely different town, even different country.