PaulPaul - 4:40 am on Aug 30, 2002 (gmt 0)

If Google where ever compelled to open it's log file on you, it could easily track 100% of the searches associated with your tracking code.

I totally agree, and there is no doubt in that.

But just as others have said, this has always been trackable through the ISP. Just look at FBI tracking work on the internet. Everything is trackable on the internet. Dial-up or not.

As many others have said, the whole cookie issue is a nonissue to me. What I do and how I use Googles services at Google.com is 100% Googles business. If they can use the data to build a better search engine, so much the better.

I also totally agree.

It's once you leave Google.com and start surfing the web, with the toolbar spying on every click - that's a bit too much. Especially given both IE's and the toolbars problematic security history.

If you dont like it, uninstall the toolbar.

Just to be clear, I wasnt trying to argue that google doesnt track users information ie. previous searches, visited URL's, etc.
I was discussing technology, that storing this data in client-side cookies is not pratical and is not how it is done. :)