When I look up something on google I see ads for the things I searched?

[Denny]

Google and facebook track all of your searches and what you do on the internet by using little pieces of software called cookies. To stop this you can browse the web with your cookies off (you can manage your cookies in your browser's settings or prefrences, also, you have to turn on your cookies to log onto facebook, but it is safe to turn them off after you are done using facebook) and when you are done using the internet also delete all of your cookies using software called bleachbit which can be found here: http://download.cnet.com/BleachBit/3000-...entBody;1d

And you can also use safe search engines like duckduckgo.com instead of google, duckduckgo does not track any of your searches or what you do on the web.