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ipod touch amused me today. Can somebody give a technical explanation?
Ok, so you know how when you do a search on Google, and you come back to do a different search, and once you type in the first letter in the search bar it give you a list of your previous searches starting with that letter?
Ok, well I have a wireless network at my house, with one desktop and one laptop. I just bought a 3rd gen. ipod touch a few days ago, and I have been using my wifi to browse the net on the ipod. When I went to google this morning and started typing in the search bar, it showed me all my ****ing searches from my desktop and my laptop. Searches that I did months ago that are no longer even on my computer because I cleared the history.
it could have been other people searching for the exact same thing. Google has a smart text autocomplete feature that takes a guess at things you and others have searched for.
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Browser autocomplete is via storing what you typed in the same or similar fields, that doesn't apply here as its different browsers. Very small possibility that Apple would sync your history the way they do bookmarks for Safari, but I don't think thats it. Someone else mentioned a google autocomplete of popular search terms - that's done via AJAX. Since its unlikely your 4 examples are either popular or have ever been searched for by anyone else, it leaves us with the fact that Google keeps your search history and knows who you are, and offers it back to you via the same AJAX mechanism. Perhaps you have gmail or use igoogle, google voice, etc. and logged in on the ipod touch. I am pretty sure they wouldn't do it by IP address that would lead to privacy issues. Google does keep your search history and you have to trust them to Not Be Evil but they will give up the data if subpoenaed.
ipod touch amused me today. Can somebody give a technical explanation?
