From: nekramer at mindtheater.net (Nancy Kramer)
Subject: Fw: Google Search and Gmail Correlation

If you run the Google Toolbar they do know where you have been surfing on 
the web.  They do record it.  That's how you "pay" for the Toolbar.  Your 
theory sounds correct to me.

Regards,

Nancy Kramer
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At 04:28 AM 2/25/2005, Colin.Scott@...lc.com wrote:


>A little OT but I was pondering the other day about something.
>
>Remember the Axis network camera "inurl" search that exposed internet
>facing LAN cameras? Well I noticed that lots of those cameras are
>configured on high ports. 7000 for example. Now, I wondered how Google gets
>those cameras into its cache. Ok so there may be a web facing link
>_somewhere_ that references the URL... but when you search there are
>hundreds of these cameras in Google's cache. Now are Google going to tell
>us that they got there merely from web links? Is Google doing port scans
>when it finds an IP? Probably not.... So how about the Googlebar secretly
>updating Google's cache when we use these things?
>
>Just a ponder, please dont flame me if its been covered before, I havent
>got my flame-proof trousers on today!  :)
>
>Cheers,
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>Colin.
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>Hello Cody,
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>I think that what you are observing is this: the cookie you get when
>visiting your gmail account is valid for the whole google.com domain, and
>therefore will be transferred again when you do web searches as well.
>
>As you write, this is not a bug per se, the cookie mechanism is working as
>expected.
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>It is also obvious that such an approach may raise privacy concerns.
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>Now, *if* google wanted to mitigate this problem, it would be easy. They
>should migrate the gmail service web frontend to a subdomain (say:
>gmail.google.com) or even a whole new domain (gmail.com exists already but
>www.gmail.com merely redirects) and make the cookie only valid in that
>domain/subdomain.
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>The questions is, do they want to do this?
>
>And yes, for now, if you are privacy conscious, delete the cookie before
>doing a Google search (or using any other Google service).
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>Regards:
>
>Szilveszter Adam
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