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to: Geo.
from: RobertB
date: 2007-05-28 10:21:00
subject: Re: so much for Microsoft search

From: RobertB 

In article , "Geo."
 wrote:

> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:46585710$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070525/wr_nm/google_search_dc_2;_ylt=AvOoesDHKLW
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> > SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Web search leader Google Inc. in April showed a
> > sharp gain in market share among U.S. Web search users, taking business
> > from its three closest rivals, research firm comScore Inc. said on Friday.
>
> Oh bull, it jumped because google changed the way they track users. Their
> little bar at the top that shows "web news, images, etc" was
changed to
> javascript that tries to track you. I know because none of my users could
> see it once google changed it (I filter that crap at the proxy server).
>
> Geo.

Ahh, so that's what they did. I noticed something odd about the menu bar.
In Safari it seems to have moved to the left. How can you tell what the
script is doing though?

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