Editing Google Search (section)

=== Privacy ===
{{Main|Privacy concerns regarding Google}}

Google has been criticized for placing long-term [[HTTP cookie|cookies]] on users' machines to store preferences, a tactic which also enables them to track a user's search terms and retain the data for more than a year.<ref name="ac">{{Cite magazine |last=Caddy, Becca |date=March 20, 2017 |title=Google tracks everything you do: here's how to delete it |magazine=Wired |url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-history-search-tracking-data-how-to-delete |access-date=March 20, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170324030045/https://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-history-search-tracking-data-how-to-delete |archive-date= Mar 24, 2017 }}</ref>

Since 2012, Google Inc. has globally introduced encrypted connections for most of its clients, to bypass governative blockings of the commercial and IT services.<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 12, 2014 |title=Google is encrypting search globally. That's bad for the NSA and China's censors |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/03/12/google-is-encrypting-search-worldwide-thats-bad-for-the-nsa-and-china/?noredirect=on |url-access=subscription |author1=Craig Timberg |author2=JIa Lynn Yang |access-date=July 7, 2018 |archive-date=December 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181203054419/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/03/12/google-is-encrypting-search-worldwide-thats-bad-for-the-nsa-and-china/?noredirect=on |url-status=live }}</ref>

Google searches have also triggered [[Reverse search warrant#Keyword warrant|keyword warrants]] in which information is shared with law enforcement leading to a criminal case.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/google-is-giving-data-to-police-based-on-search-keywords-court-docs-show/ | title=Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show }}</ref>