Ah, but the difference is that you are not required to provide any personal information to google before you use their search engine or any of the other tools that they provide. Tracking an IP address along with every search is not an invation of privacy when you consider how many ip addresses are dynamically distributed. An email address often only traces back to the isp now a days. Steve Steve Dawes Calgary Canada. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Gregory Nowak Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 3:31 PM To: akp at eznet.net; Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: FreedomBox -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 03:28:23PM -0400, Ann K. Parsons wrote: Heck, guys, google tracks you when you > go there, probably. So do the other search engines. Actually, they do. I don't remember where I saw this, but google does supposedly log every search, along with the IP address. Greg - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCZCcK7s9z/XlyUyARAga/AKDGfaa0GeRVWW2forUMUPkzBh8p2wCg3cDr qXKuxwZqtV0pzbQ76v2ImTA= =dM+h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup