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Think Twice About What You Search For

Posted by Raj Dash on Sunday, April 25th 2010

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Search engines offer all kinds of personalization features that make research easier, but they might also be exposing our privacy. A team of European and American researchers were able to reconstruct users Web browsing history by hijacking Google’s personalized search features. While Google has fixed some of the problems, they still exist on other sites.

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