On 29 June 2011 12:23, Derek Smithies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > this discussion on security, and so one wants their own mail server, > has missed one point, which obliviates any of the preceeding issues. > > Search engines keep a track of your requests, so they can provide links > more in tune with what you are, and so the advertising on the pages can > can be adjusted to better suit your profile. > > Thus, if you only search for mac related things, the mac related links will > be more likely to be found on the first page. > > Now, if I frequently search for torrents, it is not going to be good if > the search > engine is owned by Time Warner. > > Thus, my view is that security of your email store is important, but it > is not the > big picture. The big picture is the search engine, and who owns it.
Just one of the reasons I've switched to duckduckgo.com No tracking or logs to be leaked: http://donttrack.us/ No automatic search results biasing: http://dontbubble.us/ http://duckduckgo.com/goodies.html # More good reasons. That a team of 1 can do something which competes with Google is astounding. -- Kent perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );" http://kent-fredric.fox.geek.nz _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
