What is The Internet Hiding?

Wow - never even thought about the search engines doing that! Frightening really...

One thing you can do to help prevent being a "statistic" is to go to ghostery.com and download their free stat-gathering blocker.  When I visited the Moveon.org page, these are the programs that ghostery blocked:

AddThis

Facebook Social Plugins

Google Analytics

KissMetrics

Optimizely

Quantcast

This 'filter bubble' might explain why I often find google results that my friends don't.  It could also be the reason why some "unawakened" people aren't getting it... limited access to the information.

I'm wondering if I should switch search engines.  Does anyone have a favorite besides Google?

Bingo - Google is the problem - they are undoubtedly filtering other search engines! James McCanney always lists a few others on his radio shows - but I am never in a position to write them down as I am usually walking or riding as I am listening - but there are others out there for sure. Of course - they could be doing the same thing, but maybe not.

I put Ghostery on both of my computers - it is amazing who is looking at what page you're on!

When I think about it, I use www.startpage.com . It claims not to track your searches and has a broad archive of info. 

That ghostery.com sounds worthwhile visiting though Noa.  Thanks.

Thanks, Berry, I'm switching my homepage today!

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Eli Pariser was interviewed on Democracy Now 

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/5/27/eli_pariser_on_the_filter_bubble