BLUE JEANS vs. YOUR PRIVACY

There's a record of some personal information about EVERY internet user in the world - where else but in CALIFORNIA.

Ask yourself this: What company employs thousands of people who can wear blue jeans to work, can have a massage at work if they get stressed, get exotic free lunches daily, can go to the gym to workout anytime (at work), and also knows a LOT of personal information about every internet user in the world?

The answer is two young college students, who in 1998 had the idea for an internet search engine known as GOOGLE. The two computer-savy men are worth 15 BILLION dollars EACH today. In 2008, Google made a PROFIT of 4 billion dollars, because over 2 billion searches are done in the world on Google DAILY. It employs engineers and technicians who have helped build an idea into one of the wealthiest companies in the world.

Two-thirds of all web searches are done on Google. Other search engines are available on the web, such as Ask.com, AOL, Yahoo, InfoSearch, and many others, and the newest is Bing from Microsoft.

Google has many products and features, such as Google AdWords (their advertising application), GMail, an Android driven cell phone, YouTube, and many, many more. Just go to Google.com to see what I mean. A 34-year old woman, who started out with the two college grad-students in 1998, is called the "keeper of the look" making sure the homepage for Google is kept simple, clean, easy and fast to use. She is also now very rich!

Google gets thousands of subpoenas each year from lawyers or courts for copies of people's internet search records for lawsuits, because of The Patriot Act signed by President George W. Bush. The Patriot Act gives the government access to Google data.

I watched the show "Inside The Mind Of Google" on CNBC to learn these interesting facts. What you search for (a search query) tells a lot about a person, and each item is linked to a specific IP address (your personal computer's address on the web). Google technicians use their "log of searches" from their servers to upgrade and refine their searches to make their product better.

The GOOD NEWS is that after 18 months, your PERSONAL internet searches are no longer identifiable by IP address and are transferred to the "anonymous" bank of information within their servers and can no longer be tracked to any person or computer.

If you want to see what I mean and learn for yourself more details of the operation of Google, view the following video, as seen on CNBC. It's FREE.