Taking off my Tin Foil hat

This post is from from my other blog here

Getting to (Know, Know) Know YouWill this madness ever cease? I am just about ready to take this tin foil hat and throw it in the microwave to watch the sparks fly… I can tell you that. I mean really, there must be something else I can talk about right? But oh no, not Davey boy, he’s a UPM Addict and there is little hope. As such allow me one more folly into the world of Search and User Performance Metrics; Yesterday, I stumbled across a (2006) Google Patent relating to Ad Targeting named; Determining advertisements using user behaviour information such as past navigation information. While touring around in there, I ran into these ; ‘navigation history information need not be collected by a toolbar. It can be collected using a proxy server, a browser helper object, or by a custom browser implementation. One or more of these alternative approaches can be considered. They are merely different ways of providing the same functionality’.Ok, so we have many ways of watching you and it includes the GoogleToolBar, FireFox (whom they fund), or any other damn way we please. Sounds reasonable...