The power of Google

[Becky]

Data is not information.  Google stores data.  And if you're so concerned about your personal safety, get off the internet.  Additionally, never apply for a passport, credit card, debit card, driving licence...

[monkey0506]

...job, welfare, food stamps, unemployment...

Besides...Google doesn't rearrange your results based on your profile if you're not logged in to any profile.

[Phemar]

I don't really care what information some database has on me. If they want to collect that kind of stuff, that's cool with me. I mean, I'd rather chill out at home and listen to some good music, instead of worrying about stuff like this.

I think it'd be awesome to have a huge database of everyone in the world. Organized Information readily available to anyone who needs it -- How awesome would that be?

[nulluser]

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[monkey0506]

Organized information!?!?!? What kind of demonic cult are you a follower of Zor?

On a more serious note, I too don't really care what information Google collects about my personal searching habits. I usually only search for things like "Qur'an," "terrorist bombings," "Muslim religious beliefs," "human sacrifice," "how to build a bomb 101," etc. 2 or 3 times a week.

The thing we have to realize is that Google isn't some kind of evil organization bent on ruling the world. It's a group of geeks who years ago wrote a search engine and are now living the geek equivalent of the good life. The information Google collects is intended to improve their search engine in order to bring you the most relevant (to you) results first. As for any pages Google might choose to explicitly exclude from their search results, it is their search engine, not yours.

[EDIT:]

If you're looking for something entirely different, try using entirely different keywords. That's just the way a search engine works. But it's like I said before TVLand's post...they rearrange the results to try and bring you what you want, not to try and hide it from you. It's kind of like the Spam Filter on your email. Your email server automatically tries to determine what is Spam and what isn't. It's not to try and prevent you from getting messages you do want; it's to try and prevent you from getting messages you don't.

[dasjoe]

Besides...Google doesn't rearrange your results based on your profile if you're not logged in to any profile.

sorry, totally does depends on the domain you access it through. google.com will give german results for me, same as google.de*. but if i click "google.com in english" i'll get all kinds of results

*: weird behaviour, my browser and os are set to english and they still are in german, giving german results. no cookies. probably geolocation.