How the hell has this happened Mr Google?

[Oakie]

So yesterday I did a google search at work on my work pc for a particular contractor. This morning Mrs Oakie opened her personal tablet at home and fired up google for something and there under recent searches was the contractor I had looked at at work yesterday. Please explain how this can happen?

[slofox]

Coz Big Bruvva is watching you.

[Oakie]

Coz Big Bruvva is watching you.

That's the only answer I've come up with so far too...

[nzspokes]

So yesterday I did a google search at work on my work pc for a particular contractor. This morning Mrs Oakie opened her personal tablet at home and fired up google for something and there under recent searches was the contractor I had looked at at work yesterday. Please explain how this can happen?

When you say contractor, do you mean Hooker?:nya:

[Oakie]

When you say contractor, do you mean Hooker?:nya:

I laughed! No, it was actually for anti-slip flooring ... so exactly the opposite of slippy slidey ...

[FJRider]

That's the only answer I've come up with so far too...

For future reference ... ;)

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001350.htm

[Akzle]

are you using microsoft and/or chrome?

Cloud cookies. Nomnomtor

[Oakie]

are you using microsoft and/or chrome?

Cloud cookies. Nomnomtor

Microsoft Explorer and Office at work, Firefox and Office at home. Tablet ... whatever browser it uses (Samsung). No Chrome anywhere unless that's what's on the tablet. (Mrs Oakie has gone away with it.)

[Akzle]

Microsoft Explorer and Office at work, Firefox and Office at home. Tablet ... whatever browser it uses (Samsung). No Chrome anywhere unless that's what's on the tablet. (Mrs Oakie has gone away with it.)

y'd'a been signed in/ have sign in cookies on each. Tracking cookies. Google cookies. Adsense, farsebook, &c.

Its all one...

[mashman]

They know where you live and where you work. You connect both, and more. In fact you should accept that they could auto-navigate you through your internet activity for the day in a more efficient manner than you can... should you let them. As has been noted by a few members here, some posts hit google instantly. It's under the guise of customer service i.e. limiting the crap results from your search according to your internet history preference. They're doing you a favour ;)

[Oakie]

True enough. I googled the title of this very thread and there it was, right at the top of the list.
I'm going to go and live under a rock. (Oakie trudges away from thread disconsolately ... kicks rock in frustration ... breaks toe. Swears.)

[Laava]

True enough. I googled the title of this very thread and there it was, right at the top of the list.
I'm going to go and live under a rock. (Oakie trudges away from thread disconsolately ... kicks rock in frustration ... breaks toe. Swears.)

Remember those naked bike pics you posted? Watch the news at 6 tonight!

[Gremlin]

Yep, when you log in into your google account across devices it then "knows" you. ie, when logged in, and going to Maps, I can type home to x, and it knows where home is.

Because it knows you, it will also know your search preferences. ie, if you searched for something remotely motorcycle related while not logged in, you might find the result way down the results. Log in, and it will likely return the same result much higher up.

Don't worry, they say it's much better for you :confused:

[Tazz]

They're after your lucky charms! Run to the hills!

:bleh:

[Oakie]

Remember those naked bike pics you posted? Watch the news at 6 tonight!

Oakie enters state of near panic.

[Oakie]

Yep, when you log in into your google account across devices it then "knows" you. ie, when logged in, and going to Maps, I can type home to x, and it knows where home is.

Because it knows you, it will also know your search preferences. ie, if you searched for something remotely motorcycle related while not logged in, you might find the result way down the results. Log in, and it will likely return the same result much higher up.

Don't worry, they say it's much better for you :confused:

Actually, I've noticed when I access googlemaps at work it gives me 'distance from home' even though it's a different google account. Probably just because I've traced routes to my address so often perhaps.
Mrs Oakie has a regular thing she goes to on a Monday evening and without her doing anything, googlemapa pops up on Monday afternoon to remind her of the route.

[mashman]

True enough. I googled the title of this very thread and there it was, right at the top of the list.
I'm going to go and live under a rock. (Oakie trudges away from thread disconsolately ... kicks rock in frustration ... breaks toe. Swears.)

ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaa... well, if you're sitting and fancy watching John Oliver interviewing Edward Snowden about what the NSA etc... do with your dick pics, this is worth a watch and a darn fine larf too.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVlyP4_11M

[p.dath]

It's because you would have been signed into a Google account while doing your searches (Google Mail, Adwords, etc). Ditto at home.

If you sign out and then do your search it wont remember it.

[Gremlin]

Mrs Oakie has a regular thing she goes to on a Monday evening and without her doing anything, googlemapa pops up on Monday afternoon to remind her of the route.
This is part of the Google now feature. It can look at your calendar and if it knows the destination, cross reference it's traffic data with your route options and then advise that you must leave by a certain time. So no, not scary at all :msn-wink:

You can enable stuff like voice search and if you're on the move it automatically suggests you want to go there from your current location and with very few presses routing starts...

[Big Dog]

It's because you would have been signed into a Google account while doing your searches (Google Mail, Adwords, etc). Ditto at home.

If you sign out and then do your search it wont remember it.
Not necessarily true. They do some funky stuff around geolocation. If someone at the same external ip address finds value in going to a specific website it will rank higher in another user on the same network connecting.

Example: if I do lots of research on SQL at my house and then my wife using a pc that I have never logged into types Sq into the browser it starts autofilling with queries about SQL. Even if she types squeal.

It judges value on things like how much of the page did you read and which one was the last one you read.

Try it. Do a bunch of image searches that contain cosplay in your string, open a few pics of hot girls.
Go to another pc on the same router that you have never logged into anything Google. Most of your image results will now have got girls in costumes near the top even if the words cosplay girl and hot are not in your search.

Spooky.
Now if you named your wife on Facebook and she confirmed your relationship and she lists her address but you never have? That's right open your phone Google map to home. Guess where it tells you to go?

I know you can opt out of this shit but I'm not sure I'm brave enough to follow googles instructions for opting out.

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[Big Dog]

Got a fetish for porn themed in Nigella Lawson? Guess what's near the top when you're Mrs does a recipe search?

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[jonbuoy]

Not necessarily true. They do some funky stuff around geolocation. If someone at the same external ip address finds value in going to a specific website it will rank higher in another user on the same network connecting.

Example: if I do lots of research on SQL at my house and then my wife using a pc that I have never logged into types Sq into the browser it starts autofilling with queries about SQL. Even if she types squeal.

It judges value on things like how much of the page did you read and which one was the last one you read.

Try it. Do a bunch of image searches that contain cosplay in your string, open a few pics of hot girls.
Go to another pc on the same router that you have never logged into anything Google. Most of your image results will now have got girls in costumes near the top even if the words cosplay girl and hot are not in your search.

Spooky.
Now if you named your wife on Facebook and she confirmed your relationship and she lists her address but you never have? That's right open your phone Google map to home. Guess where it tells you to go?

I know you can opt out of this shit but I'm not sure I'm brave enough to follow googles instructions for opting out.

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Yup I've noticed this a lot more using Googles DNS even though Google say they don't use DNS results for actively pushing adverts at you.

If you have been doing searches while you or someone else has been signed into a Google account that entire search history is stored online.

[Akzle]

but y'all fuckers keep buying the devices, using the software...
Whinging rights = nil.

[unstuck]

but y'all fuckers keep buying the devices, using the software...
Whinging rights = nil.

Whinging about whinging fuckers is still fucking whinging, so stop fucking whinging. Fucker. :bleh:

See how complaining about shit can get out of hand.:shifty:

[Akzle]

Whinging about whinging fuckers is still fucking whinging, so stop fucking whinging. Fucker. :bleh:

See how complaining about shit can get out of hand.:shifty:

who's fucken whinging?

[Big Dog]

but y'all fuckers keep buying the devices, using the software...
Whinging rights = nil.
Not whinging. I think it's hilarious how people go on and on about rights to privacy and then go ahead and share the most intimate details of their lives on line expecting it to remain private.

If you are not the paying customer you are the product.
Farce book makes exponentially more money off selling your browsing history than they ever could by charging a membership and keeping your data safe.

Don't like it buy a generator and build a turret in the bush. Just don't go on line to buy the parts.

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[Akzle]

Don't like it buy a generator and build a turret in the bush. Just don't go on line to buy the parts.

how did you know <_<

[Big Dog]

how did you know <_<
Rofl. The zombie apocalypse is coming. Not in the the way of the walking dead, more the sheeple who are so dependent on being plugged in that they lack independent thought.

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[TheDemonLord]

To test if this really is happening:

do the following Google Search:

"How to get Kinky Threesome with Wife"

If when you get home, your possessions are neatly packed outside the front door, then I suspect it is due to you being signed in with the same google account on both devices.

If when you get home your wife is waiting for you with a bit of Crumpet then you are welcome.