One can, by pasting a few lines of code strategically in one’s webpage, include a site search constricted Google, Yahoo, Bing, Swiftype etc. search button on one’s Webpage.
Along for the ride come, all sorts of Adsense and similar functions, whether they are disclosed up front or not. Advertizing pays the bills for storage, connectivity, and free content. It is that very trait that makes hacking services of benefit to those who want to exploit you illegally opposed to those who exploit you legally.
If you have an internet connected device, anywhere and actually use it, you are being tracked, Period.
Having worked in IT for over 30 years, and being a Certified Government Chief Information Officer, and having had extensive training and practice in cyber security, I can add my voice to the thunderous hoard of those who say Cyber Security is the largest oxymoron ever spoken.
If you are concerned about security use due diligence in keeping your system protection updated, and don’t even login on your machine with an administrator equivalent userid unless you are installing something, or use the install as Admin option, back up your data externally, generally don’t open unsolicited email from people you don’t expect something from, be leery of attachments, and realize if a web site has been hacked and you visit it during the time it is infected and click on something or download something, risks exist.
If you were infected while visiting and expect the site (any site) to willingly admit they were hacked, after they detect internally and fix it, dream on. Financial liability is not going to be freely offered to any affected visitors, plus proving you were one has technological challenges of its own. Sometimes the size of the data breach attracts government investigations and eventual disclosure, but that does not occur most of the time.
Like every tool we use in the shop, some are sharper than others, some more dangerous than others, and some require a bit more training and skill to use. Its true in internet search engines the same.
I totally understand your comments and agree with you, yet in the spirit of what we do here in Shopsmith Forums sharing information, I offered the info. Now we have entered another Forum phase, or Pharaphrase if I may, Search Tool Review. Indeed some tools are sharper than others and can inflict an injury from time to time if we aren’t both knowledgeable and careful using them.
Dusty asked “Is this different than the method that was presented here on the forum many months ago by reible?” I honestly don’t know. I did not see that post. It would not surprise me that some of us failed to see it, and Dusty is very sharp, and has very keen eyes and Reible as well. It sure would not be the first time a subject was covered more than once in the forums.
Maybe it will help someone here, and as I stated, some folks already knew.
I found a post
http://www.shopsmith.com/ss_forum/viewt ... 54#p174354 dated 20 Aug 2014 that was written by Algale titled Using Google Search
Perhaps that topic is what Dusty was referring to, or Reible may also have posted about the topic too. I will have to search for it. No offense to anyone was meant in duplicating the topic.
Update: I found the original 2009 Post by MickyD in which Reible posted a graphic using Google search... I told you Dusty was sharp. That post
http://www.shopsmith.com/ss_forum/viewt ... 490#p38490 predated my membership here several years. I had not read it.
Searching for something Shopsmith or Otherwise.pdf