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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2013-09-11 17:53, Ivo De Broeck
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<div dir="ltr">Hmm I only can say, that I have build a small
website about "Kinderyoga Re-born in Duffel".
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<div>When I ask google "Kinderyoga Duffel", this are the
results:</div>
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<div style="">- first payed advertises (gray)</div>
<div style="">then Gouden gids</div>
<div style="">then the site Re-born</div>
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<div style="">But you don't have to follow the rules of google
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Google profiles you and, in the first hits, you receive pages
supposed to meet your interests.<br>
It's possible to become Google anonymous (to change your Google ID)
but it's so long to explain and to do and it lasts so shortly before
they relate the new ID to the former one that it has now become in
vain. Eavesdropping is illegal but every single move Google does is
towards that. Their captcha system (1)? Just a way to know you
have visited the site.<br>
And consumer defense seems to be blind.<br>
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When I was at work, I devised <a
href="http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftp/e/pirard.txt">a
translation table</a> between ISO8859-1 (latin-1) (on the network)
and the Macintosh character set (in Mac OS). I wanted Apple to
participate but they alleged the San Francisco earthquake not to do
it. It was a Macintosh "resource" file containing my name. It was
first used in Steve Dorner's Eudora (e-mail) and, via each and every
Macintosh Internet software, it made its way towards Netscape 3
(yes, my name in it, you may sit down ;-)).<br>
Good old days.<br>
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One day, I happened to make some simple query like "Pirard
Macintosh" and I was surprised to find a Mac developer page
regarding character sets and advertising my translation resource.
Then I had the stupid idea to repeat the same query after replacing
Macintosh or Apple with Microsoft and, oops, popped up ... a porn
page !!!<br>
That's one of the reasons why I'm using Ubuntu/Debian/Linux ;-)<br>
Google dared not profile people by those days. They started in the
News partially, then more and more, and as nobody complained they
did it in Google search too, and on and on. Wonder why the Web
query is sent to Google first when you click a search result and
look at that query and see if you understand the information that
leaves your system.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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(1) Google's captcha shows two words: the captcha itself and another
word using us as Optical Recognition machines. I recommend not
decoding the second word but translating it to French. If we do all
the same joke, they will end up with a funny OCR result.<br>
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