Scary Google - be careful
I've got a small home WiFi network and normally use Google for search and a Gmail address for emails on my Windows 7 desktop machine. So far, so good. A week or so ago, my wife bought herself a Samsung tablet and I helped her set it up by connecting to the house WiFi and getting her her own, separate, Gmail account (Android seems to make that more or less essential).
However, last night she pressed the tablet Home button which, if it is held down, launches Google search and wow, her tablet listed the last three Google searches that I had made on my desktop! As you can imagine, that could have been a little embarrassing! Luckily I had been researching bathroom upgrades so it might even have got me some bonus points.
I know that Google shares search data with advertisers, that's how their business works and I realise our two machines are probably using the same IP address, but sharing search information between two separate Gmail accounts on different computers? I really don't like that. It makes me wonder what else Google is sharing from my machine.
Anyone else out there who was not aware of this - be careful!
I think its time to investigate alternate search engines......