Note: Kirk is "the Affordable Full time Professional Wedding Photographer Winsdor, Ontario". Here is the Link to KW Masters Photography Wedding Photographer -Blog
Introduction:
I just picked up a new tip on internet browsing. Have you ever searched Google using Chrome and saw results that the same search results on another computer sitting just next to you doesn't?
Today, we have to be cautious are everything that we do on the web. Why? Because all of it is being recorded somewhere. Why anyone would want to see what or where I was searching is way beyond me.
Web Browsing is Highly Manipulated:
A few years back, a student of mine showed me an article that he had found in a magazine. I did not like what I was reading. When you search, say for sweaters, and then suddenly you find a lot of site on sweaters advertised on the right or left of your search results. Some code picked up on what you were looking for and gave you a manipulated search result. For that matter, all of these search engines manipulate the results. That is what SEO or search engine optimization is all about. Just because a site is on page one doesn't mean that it is the best. There are many reasons for being on page 1 in Google. One may be history. The site has been there for a long time.
Many times I will search the web to look at my competitor sites. To check out their photos and to see how good they are. I am sure that they are doing the same to me. Sometimes I find very good photography and my wife and I both agree. Sometimes I find on page 1 Terrible photography. The guy is proud of the fact that for 10 years he has been giving his customers the same s... photos, you know what I mean. I am not here to train my competitors.
Einstein is famous for his quotation of insanity: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the same results".
The problem that I found is that Google was keeping a record of my searches. What they think I liked and when I searched again, these results would show up. That is NOT what I was looking for or wanted. This is AFTER I had deleted the browser history. I have to delete my personal passwords and stuff.
I would go and use another browser and the results were different. Then I returned to Chrome and the same things appeared again. While I was clearing the history, one page at at a time Google gave me a message. GO INCOGNITO press Ctrl -Shift -N
That solved the problem. But it created other problems. I went to my Wordpress bookmark to start writing about this. You guessed it. My auto login was missing because I was Incognito. Well if you can't laugh at your self, who can you laugh at.
While we are on the subject of people spying on us, you just might want to Ghost you IP address at times. Search TOR browser for more info. Curiously, when using TOR I went to ahrefs to check our site stats, backlinks, dofollows/no follows, ect. I logged into ahrefs twice in a row with two different IP addresses and they seem to remember who I was by telling me that I only had 2 free clicks left for the day. How did they know it was me. Perhaps there is little that we can do when Big Brother is watching.
There is also a problem and in the past a big problem showing your web page on the different browsers. There are many out there. We use Chrome, have IE and Firefox and TOR. You can run into problems with Google if you run Flash on your site. Google doesn't like Flash as I painfully found out a few years back.
Masters-Tip: Go INCOGNITO so that Google does know who you are and give you your hidden history. Want to hide your IP - use the TOR browser, you might have heard them use this on the TV show Continuum.
While back to writing tomorrows post.
Kirk is a Professional Wedding Photographer in Windsor Ontario Canada. In appreciation if you would be so kind as to give a G+ and a Facebook Like KW Masters Photography on his Facebook page. You only have to do this once and add your likes and G+ per post.
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