How to find out who Google thinks you are from your web history.

[snagglepuss]

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Now the search giant has given a glimpse on just how much information it has collected - and who thinks you are.

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The profile page, called Ad Preferences, is hidden away inside a settings menu in Google Accounts, but can be accessed directly here. (Go to article for the link)

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And people taking advantage of the new facility that allows the public to view what kind of consumer Google thinks they are have been amused to find themselves listed with the wrong age and even sex.






Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2092583/Who-does-Google-think-Hidden-page-reveals-privacy-row-search-giant-thinks-knows-you.html#ixzz1kfcbSJul

[alittlelark]

1. Google was correct w/my city, gender and age.

The interests were eerily close as well.

Not liking it very much..

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. google thinks I am a 55-65 yr old male

not even close!

[dawg]

12. It thinks I'm 55-65 too.

I am male, but I'm only 44. I guess I must be a fuddy-duddy.

[RC]

3. I get an "Unable to Connect" when I click on the link.

[starroute]

4. I get "No interest or demographic categories are associated with your ads preferences so far."

I'm not sure if that's because I use Cookie Culler or because I never click on ads.

[oldhippie]

5. It has me pretty well pegged ........

It only showed three interests, though. I have a lot more than that. Does it only show three for everyone?

[ProdigalJunkMail]

6. doesn't seem to know much about me either

other than a few basic interests... no age or sex or anything unless i am missing it somewhere...

sP

[ecstatic]

7. Wow. Google has me as a guy

Who is overly concerned with TV and fitness. Lol. Nothing about politics, which is weird.

[SOS]

8. LOL

Google thinks I am a 64 year old Boston woman interested in maritime transport.
Actually I am a 50 year old New York male whose interest in container ships is well below average.

[hobbit709]

9. i don't have a google account so that simplifies it a lot.

[snagglepuss]

11. I don't have a google account either but they have info on me simply from having used

google to search

[hobbit709]

14. 841,000 results for hobbit709

99% are from DU posts. the rest appear to be my folding@home statistics.

Under my real name the first ten pages at least are not me.

[snagglepuss]

20. Did you go someplace other that the Ads Preference page because

I didn't see anything about DU posts?

[cbayer]

10. Just opted out and it felt so very good.

Thanks for the info.

[uncle ray]

28. they will still collect your info.

opting out merely makes the ads you do see random and not based on what they think you want to see.

[Hugabear]

13. Would be very interesting to see what Google thinks about Rick Santorum

[Tikki]

15. They are all over the place..One computer has me a middle aged man/Not..

One has me over 40 years younger and female/half right.

What's the thing on both my computers with Health and Beauty? Unless they are talking about my least searched sites.

They got North America correct.

And only I use these two computers..no one else.

Tikki

[Matariki]

22. Ha - google thinks I'm my boyfriend

[hunter]

16. I throw everything away when I close my browser.

Cookies, cache, history, all of it.

I close and reopen my browser at least once or twice a day.

My IP address is used by a bunch of people.

I could be anyone.

Nevertheless, google seems to tailor their ads fairly quickly to a session, depending on what I'm researching that day, which is usually technical stuff.

This session my interests are:

Business & Industrial - Energy & Utilities - Renewable & Alternative Energy

There are no demographic catagories associated with me so far.

[SidDithers]

17. Google got my gender right, but thinks I'm 20 years younger than I actually am...

I like this Google person!



Sid

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

26. Same here, Google took 20 years off. MS Bing makes me look fat.

And google thinks I live in NYC or Detroit. One of them is correct.

[Zorra]

18. Thanks so much for posting this. K&R nt

[pokerfan]

19. all I got was

Your browser's cookies seem to be disabled. Ads Preferences will not work until you enable cookies in your browser. How do I enable cookies?

[redqueen]

23. Holy crap. It thinks I'm an 18-24 year old male?

Oh and it thinks my interests are Rock Music, Games, and People and Society.

Ok the music thing is right... and I do watch some walkthroughs with my girls on here so... but no, society? Just no.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

24. All mine said was, "Cookies are disabled."

"Your browser's cookies seem to be disabled. Ads Preferences will not work until you enable cookies in your browser."

I guess that means they don't know anything about me?

[RebelOne]

25. I am supposedly a 55- to 64-year male.

Boy, Goggle has that wrong. I am a 73-year-old female.

[LeftishBrit]

27. I'm a 65+ year-old male, apparently

Seriously wrong on both counts!

[Crabby Appleton]

29. My categories - says the google

Arts & Entertainment - Music & Audio - Music Equipment & Technology - Musical Instruments - Guitars
Business & Industrial
Finance
Shopping - Apparel

[LadyHawkAZ]

30. I appear to be a 45-54 y/o male interested in hair care

If they think targeting me with ads for Viagra and hair dye are going to generate revenue, they are in for a huge shock.

[XemaSab]

31. There are no words

Your demographics
We infer your age and gender based on the websites you've visited. You can remove or edit these at any time.
Age: 65+
Gender: Female

[ProdigalJunkMail]

32. get totally different google ad results on different computers

FUN! this one thinks I am an old codger with a penchant for simple mathematics and optical illusions. guess my little ones get on here from time to time to work on their math lessons...

sP

[joeybee12]

33. Google pretty much nailed me...nt