Talk:Catherine Yang

Tianshuo Yan's Comments

Hi Catherine! I enjoyed reading your data identity statement. I like how you began by introduce your name and stated your expectation.The special point is that you used the search engine in the private mode and find out Google is actually using the location information and other things to get your information.The interesting part is to go over the whole process with you. Similar to you, I also have a Chinese last name and the results the search engines give out is kind of the same as what you experienced, whereas I never thought about to search my name in incognito mode. One thought about the problem you have mentioned in the statement, you said Google still gave you almost similar result in incognito mode, I felt it is not because Google is using your other information like locations. Even if you are using the private mode, the search record in the public mode (it is called coockies) will still be counted. Thus, the result you deduced from the difference of two modes might be wrong. In all,it is a very good statement!