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<link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css">
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<meta charset="UTF-8">
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<title>Spyware Watchdog</title>
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<h1>Google Search</h1>
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<p>
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<a href="/articles">Back to catalog</a><br>
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<a href="/articles/google_search_es.html">Spanish Translation</a> <a href="https://qorg.xyz/spyware/google.html">[qorg.xyz]</a><br>
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<a href="/articles/google_search_tr.html">Turkish Translation</a><br>
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<img src="/images/google_logo.png" alt="Google logo">
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<p>
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Google Search is a search engine created and owned by <a href="/articles/google.html">Google</a>.
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<h2>Spyware Level: <font color=red>EXTREMELY HIGH</font></h2>
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<p>
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Google Search collects your personal information and is heavily integrated with other services that collect your personal information.
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Google's privacy policy<sup><a href="#1">[1]</a></sup> is written in a way that does not tell you which Google services are
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collecting which types of information, and instead ties all of its services into one privacy policy. So the best that can be done is
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to assume that by using any of Google's services at all, Google is trying to obtain all of the information detailed.
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<p>
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It's also important to note that this article only exists to provide a basic run-down on Google's spying, and is just here for completeness. It
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does not at all represent the full extent of Google's breaches of privacy, just because it is not really a secret to anyone that Google collects
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your information, so it is really not trying to be very detailed because it would not say anything new.
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</p>
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<h3>Google Search records your searches</h3>
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<p>
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Searches made using Google Search are associated with your identity and recorded in Google's servers. From the
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privacy policy<sup><a href="#1">[1]</a></sup>, Google makes it clear that:
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<p><i>
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"We collect information about the services that you use and how you use them"
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</i></p>
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<p>
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Where "collect information" is clearly stated<sup><a href="#2">[2]</a></sup> as such:
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<p><i>
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"This includes information like your usage data and preferences, Gmail messages, G+ profile, photos, videos, <b><font color=red>browsing history</font></b>, map searches, docs, or other Google-hosted content. Our automated systems analyze this information as it is sent and received and when it is stored.
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</i></p>
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<p>
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Google also confirms again that it stores your searches in its servers, in this quote:
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<i>"When you use our services or view content provided by Google, we automatically collect and store certain information in server logs.
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This includes: details of how you used our service, such as your search queries."</i>
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<h3>Google uses your searches to build a profile of your interests, which is sold to advertisers</h3>
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<p>
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In this page of Google's privacy policy<sup><a href="#2">[2]</a></sup>, Google confirms that
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they create profiles of their users interests:
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<p><i>
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"For example, we may use...information in your web history cookies to provide you with more relevant search results."
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</i></p>
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<p>
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It's important to note that Google <b>does not</b> think that your search history is personal information, as long as it is not attached to your name.
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It does share this information with advertisers, as long as it is "not identifiable":
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<p><i>
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"We may share non-personally identifiable information publicly and with our partners – like publishers, advertisers or connected sites. For example, we may share information publicly to show trends about the general use of our services."
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</i></p>
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<h3>Google Search is integrated into the "Google Accounts" spyware platform.</h3>
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<p>
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Google search allows you to sign-in using an account made on the Google Accounts spyware platform. This platform
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exists to collect personal information, and connects its users to other spyware services in the Google ecosystem.
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It attempts to collect phone numbers, and helps Google attribute the information it collects though all of its services
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to one user, increasing the accuracy of their internal profile of you.
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</p>
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<hr>
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<h2>Further Reading</h2>
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<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-newman/why-googles-spying-on-use_b_3530296.html">Why Google's Spying on User Data Is Worse than the NSA's</a><br>
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<a href="https://stallman.org/google.html">Reasons not to use Google</a><br>
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</p>
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<hr>
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<h2>Sources</h2>
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<a name="1">1.</a>
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<a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy">Google Privacy policy</a>
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<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181109075525/https://policies.google.com/privacy">[web.archive.org]</a>
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<a href="http://wayback.vefsafn.is/wayback/20181009135133/https://policies.google.com/privacy">[wayback.vefsafn.is]</a>
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<a href="https://archive.li/U4mQP">[archive.li]</a><br>
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<a name="2">2.</a>
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<a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy/example/collect-information">Google collect information</a>
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<a href="https://archive.li/Hthpb">[archive.li]</a><br>
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</p>
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<hr>
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<p><b>
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This article was last edited on 12/12/2018
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</b></p>
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