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dayve
Forum Moderator
USA
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 Posted - 15 February 2003 : 23:00:00
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Watching my internet traffic on my network I see this url processed with EVERY page request:
toolbarqueries.google.com
Anyone have an idea why this is happening? I am not searching for anything, it happens on every request I make to the internet. |
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TestMagic
Senior Member
USA
1568 Posts |
Posted - 15 February 2003 : 23:13:48
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| I believe the Google toolbar sends information back to Google about which pages you are visiting, much like the Alexa toolbard does (alexa.com). The disclaimer (the second one, the one that pops up and won't let me copy any text right now to show you) says something about this. |
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Nathan
Help Moderator
USA
7664 Posts |
Posted - 15 February 2003 : 23:22:08
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It has to get the "page rank" information somewhere 
It wont do that if you disable the "advanced features" |
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dayve
Forum Moderator
USA
5820 Posts |
Posted - 15 February 2003 : 23:36:08
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| Never paid any attention to the page rank feature, but that makes perfect sense. |
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Aaron S.
Average Member
USA
985 Posts |
Posted - 15 February 2003 : 23:52:00
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I'd like to believe it was as innocent as that, but I would also assume they use it for targeted advertising.
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dayve
Forum Moderator
USA
5820 Posts |
Posted - 16 February 2003 : 00:24:32
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I just turned the feature off. I feel "clean" now  |
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Nathan
Help Moderator
USA
7664 Posts |
Posted - 16 February 2003 : 01:01:06
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Arron, what kind of advertising have you seen Google displaying?
I would think that the search information you submitt to google would be more than enough to target you for advertising. |
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Doug G
Support Moderator
USA
6493 Posts |
Posted - 16 February 2003 : 01:21:06
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Originally posted by Aaron S.
I'd like to believe it was as innocent as that, but I would also assume they use it for targeted advertising.
--Aaron
Google states they will not use the automatic feedback for any advertising in the disclaimer about this feature, plus you certainly don't have to participate. So far Google appears to be one of the truly honorable companies on the Internet, and I believe them.
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Davio
Development Team Member
Jamaica
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TestMagic
Senior Member
USA
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Jeepaholic
Average Member
USA
697 Posts |
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sy
Average Member
United Kingdom
638 Posts |
Posted - 18 February 2003 : 18:08:17
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Originally posted by TestMagic
I stumbled across this site a couple of months ago, thought it was pretty interesting:
http://www.google-watch.org/
I saw a discussion funnily enough today about that site, there seems to be a lot of bad feeling between the site owner and google, revolving around googles rankings for his own website.
I don't really agree with what he says google is doing is wrong IMHO.
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Nathan
Help Moderator
USA
7664 Posts |
Posted - 18 February 2003 : 19:52:19
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F6 still goes to the address bar for me. . . .
But then I'm using the google bar in Mozilla, not IE. |
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Bookie
Average Member
USA
856 Posts |
Posted - 18 February 2003 : 20:11:02
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Originally posted by Jeepaholic
I'd just like to be able to get it to stop taking over F6. Used to put the cursor in the Address Bar...now it puts it in the Google Bar. Grr!
Never knew about the F6 thing. I'm glad you brought that up! |
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Doug G
Support Moderator
USA
6493 Posts |
Posted - 18 February 2003 : 21:59:53
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F6 goes to the address window for me with XP/IE6
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Davio
Development Team Member
Jamaica
12217 Posts |
Posted - 18 February 2003 : 22:52:20
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quote:
Originally posted by Doug G
F6 goes to the address window for me with XP/IE6
The same for me. |
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