I found the privacy issue the most shocking part of today’s video. I did not know that google stores all your searches. It was understanding that they use such information to evaluate their system and such, but it can be used to track people down and know the darkest secrets of a person. Especially, if you are using a google account, it stores your searches under the IP address and the user’s account. It made me think that I should think about what I enter into the search box before I search anything.
Despite the privacy stuff, Google has become part of everyone’s lives and influence the world and will continue to be for quite some time.
If you want to learn more about privacy and search engines, you might want to check out the information that the Electronic Frontier Foundation puts out on that topic. In the video today, one of the people who spoke about how Google saves your searches was Kevin Bankston, who is a lawyer for the foundation.