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How are my computer and cell phone connected?

Asked by Mariah (25883points) October 10th, 2011

I did a google search on my cell phone earlier this evening. Just now I went to search the same thing on my computer browser and it popped up as being something I’ve searched for before. I have definitely never searched it before tonight, so does that mean that google somehow knows that this phone and computer belong to the same person and synched them? How?

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It’s based on the router IP, I’ve had stuff from my ipod show up as visited on my PC, and vice verca.

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Mariah's avatar

@XOIIO Ahh! Thanks!

This may be a dumb question, but how does my cell phone relate to my router? It uses 3G, not Wifi.

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@Mariah Then you must be logged into google, and it saves the history.

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