What Google Knows About You

Google Services Gather Information

Originally Published: May 31, 2005

Google feature	Personal information that Google might collect with that feature
Google Toolbar	the web sites you visit, how often you visit them, how long you visit them, the links you click, the searches you perform, when you perform them
Google WebAccelerator	the web sites you visit, how often you visit them, how long you visit them, when you visit them, the links you click, the searches you perform
Google AdWords	your complete address, your credit card information
Google AdWords conversion tracking	your online revenue, your number of online sales
Google Desktop Search	the complete content of your desktop, your emails, your Word documents, etc.
Google AdSense	your complete address, the number of your web site visitors, if you use AdSense code on more than one page, the way people visit your web site
Personalized Google home page	your interests, the stocks you own (or are interested in), your favorite news sources (your political views)
Google MySearch history	all of your searches (your interests, hobbies, plans)
Google SMS	your cell phone number
Gmail	the content of your email messages, to which people you write, which people write to you
Google cookies	they help Google to identify you and to combine the information from the different Google features to a single account

Editor's Note: In November, 2005 Google added Google Analytics which can collect even more information about your site. Read our article at [Google Analytics - Is It Worth Its Price?]
See also: What Google Could Do If They Were Evil

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