Browser History

As I monitored my search results in my browser, I realized how fast my browser knew what I was looking for. Most of the sites that I go to regularly had already popped up in my browser. When I type the first letter of my search, the computer was able to recognize past searches that I had made. Some of the keywords that may come up could be useful to a third party, for example, a company. When I looked at my search words, nothing seemed too bad, but could be embarrassing if someone were to look at them. Although there is nothing too bad, some things should remain personal, and if someone looks at your past search results it could be looked at in the wrong way. Companies can look at my search history and look at things that I like, so I could be the potential target market for that particular company. Another way it may be valuable is if someone were trying to find out information about me, and maybe seeing things that I may be interested in. Other then past searches being a bit embarrassing, I can’t see much of my internet search being very valuable to anyone. I choose to use google, because that is the search engine I use on a regular bases. I typed in the keyword “music”. Looking at the results, there was lots of different information collected; I recognized some of the results, for I had already visited some of the sites listed. There was nothing too unusual, but I did notice that the first sites listed were Ontario and Canadian sites.