Notes from the group discussion around this question:
- finger movement makes key close circuit
- goes to the OSX kernel keyboard manager
- what do i get if I am a keylogger?
- passwords
- anything else I type
- your laptop comes out of energy savings mode
- browser looks up cache of recently accessed addresses
- browser makes a connection to Goggle's servers
- first connect to WiFi router
- router hands out my IP addresses
- get ip address of the google server
- ISP (Internet Service Provider)
- peering
- internet exchange
- Google starts to track you:
- by looking up your ip (?)
- geolocation
- many more...
- Reaching the server:
- requests
- they keep the requests as close to you as possible (if in Europe, you will be taken to servers near you)
- Google looks for searches that you did before
- Google gives you suggestions
- Results are presented back to us in the browser:
- first suggestions are things you have googled for before
- Google ads are presented to you:
- companies who pay the most / relevance
- SEO (meta, link numbers)
- document structure
- how many sites link to your site
- tracks how you are looking at the results (where in the page you are)