Chrome’s itsy bitsy spiders
ReadWriteWeb says:
An interesting theory we heard recently is that Google will use Chrome to index the password protected Web – a.k.a. the ‘dark web’.
Most web apps are password-protected and so there’s no way for a normal search engine to index the data – even data that’s generalized and doesn’t identify individual users. But with a full-fledged browser to complement its search engine, Google now theoretically has the means to index this previously inaccessible data.
Interesting that Flock browser already does this, and saves the data to an offline cache on the local machine, presumably to support all the social integration / aggregation features they’ve got going on.
I guess that Flock keep a little data for themselves too, and that is the reason for the FAQ question: How do I disable collection of anonymous usage metrics?
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