How the hell can Google read my mind???

[Anonymous]

what is the website that google can read your mind on

[Anonymous]

The usa freedom act, just signed into law, prohibits the NSA from bulk collection of YOUR phone records.

Despite signing it, the WH just asked the secret FISA court for permission to allow bulk collection for another 6 months, in violation of the spirit of the usa patriot act (and in blatant violation of your constitutionally protected right to privacy).

[Anonymous]

Well, I must have Google thoroughly confused, because for fun I just typed "are" to see what I would get. First two suggested searches: "Are aliens real" and "Are mermaids real." So Google thinks I'm either a tinfoil hat wearer or a 6 year old girl.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i was watching star trek, someone was eating food with capers in it, so i wanted to know how and where they grow, i typed "what are" and "what are capers" was fourth on the list. please somebody type in "what are" and confirm this...

Results inconclusive. It came up third in my list, and I've never looked for capers before; however, Google does know that I read your post right before initiating my search.

[Anonymous]

OP I didn't read the whole thread so sorry if this was posted already, but you reminded me of the time Target figured out that a girl was pregnant before she told her parents:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/

[Anonymous]

I was on this site replying to threads about Ebola back when the whole TX nurse thing etc. went down.

My computer started acting up and was really slow for about a month or 6 weeks. I SWEAR something about what I said put me on a watch list. Once my computer activity went back to "how to read my Chihuahua's body language" and "how to cook rice" for a few weeks, the computer went back to normal.

[Anonymous]

Also, why does DCUM think I want to freeze my eggs? That is the ad that keeps popping up for me.... Does the computer know that menopause is nigh?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP I didn't read the whole thread so sorry if this was posted already, but you reminded me of the time Target figured out that a girl was pregnant before she told her parents:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/

Based on my own experience, I'm pretty sure the girl created an account on Babycenter, and Target used big data to link her email address back to her name and physical address. I had a similar experience with a pregnancy that ended early in a miscarriage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP I didn't read the whole thread so sorry if this was posted already, but you reminded me of the time Target figured out that a girl was pregnant before she told her parents:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/

That is amazing!

[Anonymous]

I was killing time the other day and wandered into a Payless. I haven't been to one in years except on rare occasion for the kids - I definitely haven't googled them. I tried on a pair of sandals but didn't buy. I just got an ad with a picture of THOSE sandals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why don't you try:

"How does Google know..."

And see what you get.

"How does Google know everything" was the third response.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i was watching star trek, someone was eating food with capers in it, so i wanted to know how and where they grow, i typed "what are" and "what are capers" was fourth on the list. please somebody type in "what are" and confirm this...

Results inconclusive. It came up third in my list, and I've never looked for capers before; however, Google does know that I read your post right before initiating my search.

So I read this thread on my computer and when I went to Google, and entered "what are", "capers" was the first choice. I waited a couple of hours and switched browsers and it still came up the same.

But when I went to my phone and entered "what are" capers was not on the list. So it is device sensitive and possibly account sensitive. Try switching devices and see if it still knows about things that you checked on the one device. Beware, however that if you use accounts like a gmail account and you sign into your gmail account for Google, then it tracks whats used there. I have signed into my gmail account on my computer, but not on my phone, so that phone really doesn't know what my computer browsed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was killing time the other day and wandered into a Payless. I haven't been to one in years except on rare occasion for the kids - I definitely haven't googled them. I tried on a pair of sandals but didn't buy. I just got an ad with a picture of THOSE sandals.

Do you have location services turns on? If you do, then your phone probably checked you in. So at least it isn't surprising that it would flag the store. The exact shoes? That's a little harder to explain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, why does DCUM think I want to freeze my eggs? That is the ad that keeps popping up for me.... Does the computer know that menopause is nigh?

Have you clicked on any of the embryo/egg freezing threads in Expecting mothers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was killing time the other day and wandered into a Payless. I haven't been to one in years except on rare occasion for the kids - I definitely haven't googled them. I tried on a pair of sandals but didn't buy. I just got an ad with a picture of THOSE sandals.

Do you have location services turns on? If you do, then your phone probably checked you in. So at least it isn't surprising that it would flag the store. The exact shoes? That's a little harder to explain.

the shoes do have an inventory tracking device. RFID