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From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
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On 07/13/16 15:12, Jon Radel wrote:
>> On Jul 13, 2016, at 1:55 PM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam@hiwaay.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I notice that whenever I start typing text into the serch-bar of Firefox (on my FreeBSD 9.3R daily-driver desktop system) it suggests completions for me, implying that Google has my identity pegged.
> Or that your searches are pedestrian little things that many have searched for in the past. In other words, do you have any evidence that what you're getting is customized to you or is it simply giving you today's top searches that start out the way yours does?  I've never noticed any correlation with what I've done in the past, not that that proves anything.
>
> --Jon Radel
>
>


In my case, I did a FreeBSD related search & it returned several others 
I had tried/done recently (last few weeks). I dunno ....

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