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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

How Google Tracks Your Search History

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How Google Tracks Your Search History 7986-daily-golden-nugget-817This edition of the Daily Golden Nugget isn't really about how your website works, but rather a little explanation of how Google search technology work now across all platforms.

I'd like to say it's common knowledge that your web browser keeps a history of all your visited websites, but let me explain how this works just in case you don't... On any Windows computer you can open up your web browser and press Ctrl+H to open your recent history of pages you've visited. The keyboard shortcuts on a Mac are not standardized and ...
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AT: 09/10/2013 06:57:47 PM   0 COMMENTS
Monday, January 17, 2011

Does a Promise Equal an Engagement?

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Google has a massive built-in dictionary and thesaurus. Without realizing it, every time you search their site they are analyzing every word you type to find the best answer for you.

Google uses synonym matching, search history, and word association to generate the search engine results page. All those calculations happen within fractions of seconds and most of the time they return reasonable results.

Let's take a look some reasonable examples Google would associate together.

A search for the word "engagement" would certainly return matches with the words "wedding", "bridal", and "promise".

If you search for the phrase "custom made jewelry" you would also have results that include "handmade jewelry."

On the other hand, if you are in Canada your search for "custom made jewelry" would return pages for "h...
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AT: 01/17/2011 12:53:10 PM   0 COMMENTS
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