User:Sdusty/Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing is the accessibility of computer system resources, notably computer data storage and the computer power of a computer, without the direct management or influence by the user. The term is mostly used to describe data centers accessible to many users over the internet.

Cloud Computing was most popularized by Amazon.com with the release of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) in 2006.

What is Web 2.0
Web 2.0 is the name that refers to the second generation of the world wide web. Web 2.0 is focused on the ability for people to collaborate and share information online via social media, blogging and Web-based communities. Web 2.0 allows the sharing and collaboration opportunities to people and help them express themselves online.

How does Google gather information about us?
Google as well as the other majority of search engine services available to the public such as Bing and Yahoo use a wide variety of methods to track your internet traffic online.

Google in particular has been able to develop an extremely wide array of tools used to track its users and sell that information to third-party companies and advertisers.

Google's main source of tracking software is known as cookies. Cookies are a line of code attached to a users IP address which tells the website information about the user. Google uses this string of information to