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It helps to have an unusual name (ahem) and unique or extremely popular content. I have a friend who gives me movie reviews, and as a result, my site gets about a dozen hits a month for people looking for Ari Landry. I didn't even know who she was until I re-read the review that she was in. :lol:
One comment, late in the game, about Google tracking everything:
They can't. It is impossible.
Yes, they track how you came in and how you left, but EVERY website does that, including everyone here. As for the cookie, the cookie is only deposited when you are on Google. No other website can add information to that cookie, so once you leave Google, Google cannot track where you've been. The cookie could (and probably does) store the keywords you've searched for, but if that concerns you, just delete the cookie when you leave Google.
Google is made up of a bunch of geeks. Everything I've heard about them makes them seem like great guys that I'd love to start a company with. (How the hell can they be profitable when all they do is serve search queries? Yet they are.) They are practically the anti-Microsoft juggernaut of the Internet, and they treat their employees very, very well.
And: Intel has an embedded chip in the Pentium 4 (for your convenience) that tracks where you go, but it is (surely) turned off by default. Microsoft has software that communicates with that chip to send data to marketers, so you can have a personalized experience with your spam and pop-up ads. Of course, Microsoft assures us that we have to enable the software first. And then there is Palladium...
No, Google isn't a company that you have to worry about. They're not spyware. They do collect data to make their search results more accurate and relevant. But that's it.
To see Orwell in a company, look first to your operating system.
'Course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
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