Google Censoring Ammo,Gun Searching?

[pacapcop]

Anybody aware of this?

[Rick1987]

It's working for me.

[XYZ]

This is for Google Shopping rather than Google Search Engine. This will affect vendors that use Adwords, Merchant Center, etc. Here's a thread about this on another forum I'm on:

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=588161

[sqlbullet]

Well...I guess I am searching for a new search engine.

[10mm4me]

Well...I guess I am searching for a new search engine.

Scroogle.org was a good one but they had to shut down.

I dislike the fact that Google gives you a unique tracking cookie with no expiration.

I use privatelee.com when I'm home and startpage.com when I'm at work. Both delete your privacy info (or so they say) and don't leave tracking cookies like Google does.

[sqlbullet]

Privacy is why I run firefox in clear history mode. When I quit the application, everything gets nuked.  Yes, it means I have to re-login to sites like this one when I quit, but a small price to pay.

I have been giving some thought about how to really make my complaint known to Google, but haven't come up with much yet.

[REDLINE]

Privacy is why I run firefox in clear history mode.

Me too.

[Noatak]

Well...I guess I am searching for a new search engine.

Scroogle.org was a good one but they had to shut down.

I dislike the fact that Google gives you a unique tracking cookie with no expiration.

I use privatelee.com when I'm home and startpage.com when I'm at work. Both delete your privacy info (or so they say) and don't leave tracking cookies like Google does.

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Startpage is my go to search engine.   F@#K Google.  They're the new Big Brother.  You know Google has contracts with the NSA and the State department/CIA to supply search data info?   As in what people are searching for by region, zip code etc.   No joke, look it up.

Also you should be running FireFox and using some of the sweet plugins for Firefox  like Ghostery which blocks the companies which track you online, and lets you know which companies and websites are doing the tracking.

[pacapcop]

Thanks.Good info.

[sqlbullet]

As in what people are searching for by region, zip code etc.   No joke, look it up.

I am not a Google fan boy.  So don't take this as a defense of Google.

But this is their business model.  They don't provide searches for free.  None of the search engines do.  The odd thing about Google is they do provide a significant amount of the demographic data they sell for free if you want to ferret it out yourself, at google trends.

I guess I am just jaded because my parents always drilled into me, almost daily, that nothing was free.  When you don't pay money for it, you have traded something else.  If you aren't sure what you traded, the cost was probably too high.

[sqlbullet]

You know, speaking of Google Trends...

Anybody got a guess what would have caused google to spike on 10mm auto searches in January of this year?

[EdMc]

Maybe a manufacturer having some market research done looking at potential sales? I know, wishful thinking but it sounds good......

[sqlbullet]

It looks like it may have coincided with the SHOT show this year, but I am not sure what major 10mm announcement they may have made.

[EdMc]

Good call but I haven't seen anything special about 10mm in what reports on the Shot Show I've seen.