As you may well know, Google CREATES a "cookie" in our PC's, each with a unique ID that allows them to track our searches for God knows whatever commercial REASON. Being somewhat paranoid, I've been using a freeware utility known as "G-Zapper" which zaps the current current cookie and/or generates a new one. This is fine but once it executes, your Google Preferences are ALSO zapped and you must recreate them. No big deal but it's a nuisance.

This is my current Google cookie "%USERNAME%@google[2].txt" located at "C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Cookies" starts with:
PREF
ID=752914db918a2b98:FF=4:LR=lang_en|........

I would like to replace the first six numbers (752914) with a random six digit number or it could even be the current time in format HHMMSS. The solution presented should also be an executable (.exe) FILE because I have a utility called IEPrivacyKeeper that, among other things, allows for the running of a program(s) upon exit from the last IE window.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated...
I wouldn't worry about it.

Google uses the query information to help you out.

Suppose I want to find
Cardinal Townsite : Home on the Range Real Estate, Inc.

But I'm lazy, so I just enter
Cardinal Range

If I have no history, I have to wade through a lot of bird stuff.

If I operate in the real estate business and have done a lot of related queries, they can guess what I want.

You can ask dumber and dumber questions and still get pretty good answers.

The history is also used to tailor any ads or "sponsored sites" you get. Without history, they just put up random ads that are annoying rather than helpful ads.

I have a hunch they keep your history on their supercomputers linked to your IP address ANYWAY and just use the cookie to record your preferences.

If you are paranoid, use Yahoo. It is pretty good lately.

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