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Posted: 4/21/2017 6:10:27 PM EDT

Looking for different ways or strategies to teach my 8 yo his basic multiplication.

So I start typing in google, "best way to teach...... .."

First thing that pops up.

How? How does it know? I have not searched this before.

We were doing a homework sheet last night but it didn't involve my phone or anything. It was all on paper.

I think I may be triggered.

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:12:03 PM EDT

[#1]

Google is always listening for keywords.

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:12:13 PM EDT

[#2]

It's offering things based on popular search phrases from other users.

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:13:16 PM EDT

[#3]

Google looks at both your search history for relevant data, as well as what the most common searches using those terms are.

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:13:37 PM EDT

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Looking for different ways or strategies to teach my 8 yo his basic multiplication.

So I start typing in google, "best way to teach...... .."

First thing that pops up.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v707/Kegster/Screenshot_2017-04-21-16-52-23_zpsv7u9voox.png

How? How does it know? I have not searched this before.

We were doing a homework sheet last night but it didn't involve my phone or anything. It was all on paper.

I think I may be triggered.

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They probably assume that a person would much rather be seeking. "best way to teach multiplication" and not "best way to teach quantum mechanics"

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:14:07 PM EDT

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Ever heard of NSA?

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:14:20 PM EDT

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In order to improve your user experience, Google listens to your family and personal speech, via Television, Telephone, and security cameras.

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:15:06 PM EDT

[#7]

We ALL know what you're thinking.

And you should be ashamed of yourself!

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:15:31 PM EDT

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Ever heard of NSA?

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This.

Hide your dag.

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:16:00 PM EDT

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Ehhh there was an article today about google phones recording everything you say around the phone... Apparently there is also a way to erase it.

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:16:24 PM EDT

[#10]

you weren't wearing your tinfoil hat were you.

it's how they get you.

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:18:18 PM EDT

[#11]

It's a special algorithm to identify faggots.

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:18:34 PM EDT

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Quoted:
Looking for different ways or strategies to teach my 8 yo his basic multiplication.

So I start typing in google, "best way to teach...... .."

First thing that pops up.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v707/Kegster/Screenshot_2017-04-21-16-52-23_zpsv7u9voox.png

How? How does it know? I have not searched this before.

We were doing a homework sheet last night but it didn't involve my phone or anything. It was all on paper.

I think I may be triggered.

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The Google is in you.
The Google is everywhere.
The Google knows all that you know and haven't thought of yet.

The Google, is you...

A.W.D.

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:18:38 PM EDT

[#13]

Google is NOT your friend by any stretch

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:20:32 PM EDT

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Well fuck, I was going to ask them to help me move.

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:21:25 PM EDT

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they have microphones on at all time.

"ok google"

and predictive models that are damn good at guessing what you're up to

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:21:59 PM EDT

[#16]

I typed the same thing. This is what came up for me:

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Posted: 4/21/2017 6:22:52 PM EDT

[#17]

Google aside, put your kiddo into Montessori kindergarten.

My son left there at age 5 able to do basic single digit multiplication and starting principles of division.

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:25:25 PM EDT

[#18]

Even if users get the same results on some queries, it's still in their UELA that they will listen in using your camera to increase user experience, and to sell reverse marketing data to Oracle bluekai.

It's also in Facebook's mobile ~~licensing~~ experience agreement.

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:30:44 PM EDT

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It's just the most popular search for those terms. Algorithms.

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:30:56 PM EDT

[#20]

Algorithms

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:31:19 PM EDT

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Google listens. A coworker and I were discussing Lay's Sriracha flavored chips. We went to look up something music related for a customer (was working at a music store at the time) and boom, there in the Google ads was Lay's Sriracha chips. Spooky....oooh.

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:31:36 PM EDT

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I typed the same thing. This is what came up for me:

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Because it used your meta data from this thread

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:32:07 PM EDT

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I was trying to log into Microsoft Office on my Windows phone and it wasn't working. Two days later the phone tells me to change a setting to get Office to work. It all works now. All of the OS's are watching you.

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:33:53 PM EDT

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Wrong. Google told me it's my friend.

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:37:47 PM EDT

[#25]

It is creepy. It's as though they can read my mind.

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Posted: 4/21/2017 6:39:15 PM EDT

[#26]

your electronics are watching & listing to you.

Tape over webcam

Plug a speaker wire into your external speaker jack.

You need to watch Snowden

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:40:54 PM EDT

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In order to improve your user experience, Google listens to your family and personal speech, via Television, Telephone, and security cameras.

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Yup.

Talk about a food and then start typing in your search bar. Or a game. Or a car.

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:42:44 PM EDT

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your electronics are watching & listing to you.

Tape over webcam

Plug a speaker wire into your external speaker jack.

You need to watch Snowden

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Or. Look directly into the webcam and masturbate while giving the wolf stare.

Its the only way Google will learn not to fuck with you.

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:45:25 PM EDT

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Yeah, they listen in.

I've had game of thrones pop up as suggested youtube videos. I don't like game of thrones, but I did talk about it with a friend (who couldn't believe I don't watch it

) and that's when it popped up.

Maybe coincidental, but it seems just as likely that they do what other companies have been caught doing.

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:46:07 PM EDT

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We ALL know what you're thinking.

And you should be ashamed of yourself!

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Like my grandma.

A week or so before she passed away I had asked her what's wrong.

She looked me dead in the eye with a scowl on her face aND said. You know what's wrong.

Freaked me out ever since. That's been 20 or more years ago aND I remember it clearly to this day.

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:48:42 PM EDT

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It's offering things based on popular search phrases from other users.

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Yep. All the other dads searching on that pushed it to the top.

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:51:01 PM EDT

[#32]

I am not sure but I seen this same thread from you two hours ago.

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:55:53 PM EDT

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Google is always listening for keywords.

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This.
No, it's not tinfoil.

My wife was explaining arm knitting to me (months ago) so I picked up my phone to look it up myself...
Got so far as typing in ""arm" then the first suggestion was "knitting."

Do you have Facebook messenger on your phone by the way?

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:56:46 PM EDT

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Ever heard of NSA?

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Google -- the intelligence agency with the highest market cap... in the world.

Posted: 4/21/2017 6:56:54 PM EDT

[#35]

I am always amazed that 9 out 10 times google knows what I am thinking.

Posted: 4/21/2017 7:01:37 PM EDT

[#36]

We are all living in a Matrix style virtual world.

The Matrix always knows.

You are not really using google, you just think you are.

Posted: 4/21/2017 7:02:54 PM EDT

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I am not sure but I seen this same thread from you two hours ago.

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Link?

Posted: 4/21/2017 7:04:51 PM EDT

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This.
No, it's not tinfoil.

My wife was explaining arm knitting to me (months ago) so I picked up my phone to look it up myself...
Got so far as typing in ""arm" then the first suggestion was "knitting."

Do you have Facebook messenger on your phone by the way?

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Quoted:
Google is always listening for keywords.

This.
No, it's not tinfoil.

My wife was explaining arm knitting to me (months ago) so I picked up my phone to look it up myself...
Got so far as typing in ""arm" then the first suggestion was "knitting."

Do you have Facebook messenger on your phone by the way?

I'm thinking no. I don't even have Facebook . So I'm going with a firm no.

Unless it's on there and I don't know about it or use it.

Posted: 4/21/2017 7:07:26 PM EDT

[#39]

It's first on mine too.

Posted: 4/21/2017 7:08:20 PM EDT

[#40]

Big brother mind control

Posted: 4/21/2017 7:08:27 PM EDT

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I am always amazed that 9 out 10 times google knows what I am thinking.

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Exactly. It happens all the time. This is just the first time I have let it be known.
Well , I guess. There was a poster above that said I had the same thread 2 hours ago. Still waiting g for a link on that though.
If he provides a link to my thread that I don't think exists then I'm quitting the interwebs.

Posted: 4/21/2017 7:10:06 PM EDT

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It's first on mine too.

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Well with so many with the same results I'm a little relieved . But still I'm skeptical.

Posted: 4/21/2017 7:19:16 PM EDT

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Any device that is using telemetry or "OK, Google" is listening all the time. Also chrome was flagged previously as highjacking the camera on your phone.

You can disable "OK, Google", and later Android devices can restrict Facebook's access to your camera's microphone.

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Posted: 4/21/2017 7:43:20 PM EDT

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This is on a phone, right?

There are more than a few things that will listen to you via your phone and other devices.

The only good thing about this is that Clinton leaned on some of this info heavily during her last campaign - with some help from Google - and it failed miserably.

Posted: 4/21/2017 8:16:18 PM EDT

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The only good thing about this is that Clinton leaned on some of this info heavily during her last campaign - with some help from Google - and it failed miserably.

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I give Art Bell credit. Years ago, he said that he would intermittently say "kilo" when speaking on the phone. (Did any one speak more on the phone than Art Bell?).

He said it was one of the keywords NSA depended on.

Not sure what the keyword would be today, perhaps "liberty"?

Posted: 4/21/2017 8:25:08 PM EDT

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Like my grandma.

A week or so before she passed away I had asked her what's wrong.

She looked me dead in the eye with a scowl on her face aND said. You know what's wrong.

Freaked me out ever since. That's been 20 or more years ago aND I remember it clearly to this day.

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We ALL know what you're thinking.

And you should be ashamed of yourself!

Like my grandma.

A week or so before she passed away I had asked her what's wrong.

She looked me dead in the eye with a scowl on her face aND said. You know what's wrong.

Freaked me out ever since. That's been 20 or more years ago aND I remember it clearly to this day.

Were you doing gay stuff, or anything else she would not have approved of? Obviously, you were carrying shame for something.

Posted: 4/21/2017 8:28:12 PM EDT

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Google actually listens and stores your conversations if you don't have it turned off. So if you were talking about it by your phone it heard you and stores it.