Posted on 11/13/2009 11:38:08 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
Now appearing on Google: The story of my life. And yours.
Not everyone can read it, but the engineers and advertising specialists at Google can. And now users can get a peek, thanks to Google Dashboard, a new service developed at the search giant’s outpost in Zurich. Dashboard lets registered Google users see what the company knows about them. If you’ve got a Google account, just punch up www.google.com/dashboard, and get ready to feel your skin crawl.
Google knows just about everything about me. No deep, dark secrets; just thousands of tiny data points which, when put together, could provide a pretty thorough biography.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
This isn’t really a skin crawl item, all of the items on Dashboard are things you registered your Google account with, it isn’t like this was data mined without your knowledge.
Nothing surprising at all for me. Everything it picked up was from stuff I do with Google.
Actually the oddest thing was that for some reason Google doesn’t think I’ve been on the web since July sometime...
Am I logged in?
Well that's a relief. I thought Google might have figured out that they could make a database of everyone's searches, and slip it by the legal issue through their TOS, and then conduct analysis of those databases, and then sell the results or pass them on to the government, or directly to the CIA since the Agency owns part of Google and YouTube.
Glad no one thought of any of that. Whew.
One of the points under my profile says: “Nothing interesting here.” I’m SO disappointed! :-)
They have made you a non-person (cue Twilight Zone music).
Fishy was my first thought.
Hiawatha Bray?
I’m pretty sure he is from Chicago and has been with the newspaper since the mid-90s. I’ve seen his name in the tech columns for a while.
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