[Tfug] NPR - science friday - on now - open source, google apps, MS online...

[Jeffry Johnston]

Were you logged in at the time?  I've noticed that when logged in, my
searches are better, because Google already "knows" about what sites to put
up front (Linux related, Wikipedia, etc).  IIRC, this is a feature.  Maybe
it can be disabled?

Jeff

On 10/5/07, George Cohn <gwcohn at simplybits.net> wrote:
>
> jblais wrote:
> > Most callers supported
> > free Open Source, and voiced concerns about privacy and the mining of
> your
> > documets by the provider (Google, Yahoo, M$...) to see if you typed
> > something like "I like soda pop", and then spamming you with adds for
> > coke... To me, that mining is worse than just posting my documents on
> every
> > pc screen or power pole in the county!.
> > Joe
> >
>
> It get worse!  The other day I searched for something on Google and it
> gave me a list of places in Tucson where I could find it!  I didn't
> mention Tucson in the search.  ;-(
>
> George Cohn
>
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