01-12-2012, 08:56 PM
Google tracks your IP address and stores every search you make in that little white box
[url "http://www.google.com/privacy/faq.html"]http://www.google.com/privacy/faq.html[/url]
Why does Google store search engine logs data? We store [url "http://www.google.com/privacy/faq.html#toc-terms-server-logs"]this data[/url] for a number of reasons. Most importantly, we store data to improve our search results and to maintain the security of our systems. Analyzing logs data helps our engineers both improve your search quality and build helpful innovative services......
Heres another interesting tidbit
How often are you asked by governments to provide data on users? Like other technology and communications companies, we receive requests from government agencies around the world to provide information about users of our services and products. To help increase transparency about these requests we have created the [url "http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/governmentrequests/"]Government Requests Tool[/url], which shows the number of requests that we have received that relate primarily to criminal investigations.
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[url "http://www.google.com/privacy/faq.html"]http://www.google.com/privacy/faq.html[/url]
Why does Google store search engine logs data? We store [url "http://www.google.com/privacy/faq.html#toc-terms-server-logs"]this data[/url] for a number of reasons. Most importantly, we store data to improve our search results and to maintain the security of our systems. Analyzing logs data helps our engineers both improve your search quality and build helpful innovative services......
Heres another interesting tidbit
How often are you asked by governments to provide data on users? Like other technology and communications companies, we receive requests from government agencies around the world to provide information about users of our services and products. To help increase transparency about these requests we have created the [url "http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/governmentrequests/"]Government Requests Tool[/url], which shows the number of requests that we have received that relate primarily to criminal investigations.
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