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Information - essay summary

  • Submitted By: tendaimug
  • Date Submitted: 07/12/2013 8:48 AM
  • Category: Technology
  • Words: 694
  • Page: 3
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Ai)Cookies are small files that websites put on your computer hard disk drive when you first visit. Its job is to notify the site when you've returned. Cookies by themselves are not malicious but may be sometimes misuse if when they contain personal data. Cookies may also be termed as pieces of information generated by a Web server and stored in the user's computer, ready for future access. Cookies are embedded in the HTML information flowing back and forth between the user's computer and the servers. Cookies were implemented to allow user-side customization of Web information. For example, cookies are used to personalize Web search engines.
Listed below are the advantages of cookies :
• Many websites, use cookies. Cookies tell us how often you visit pages, which helps us learn what information interests you. In this way, we can give you more of the content you like and less of the content you don't.
• Cookies can help you be more efficient. Cookies let you store preferences and user names, register products and services, and personalize pages.
• Cookies do not require any server resources since they are stored on the client.
• Cookies are easy to implement.
• You can configure cookies to expire when the browser session ends (session cookies) or they can exist for a specified length of time on the client computer (persistent cookies).

The significance of cookies comes about as websites use cookies to work out how popular the different pages of their sites are, sometimes even which parts of different pages. They do this by tracking pretty much every visitor to the site the page they entered, where they came from to get there, the pages they looked at, in which order, the links clicked on, the time spent on each page, and the point of exit from the site.
They also give website owners real understanding about how people user their site (web analytics), which are the most and least popular pages, and how this changes over time. Doing this enables them...

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