2007-01-12 18:46:36 · 9 answers · asked by anne k 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
cookies are the wed pages that you looked at. its good to keep them so next time u visit the site it goes alot faster!
2007-01-12 18:50:11 · answer #1 · answered by bmxesforlife 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Cookies are small files that a website that you visited puts on your computer so that it can track your visit. For example, when you access your yahoomail, which requires authentication for every page, the login information is kept in the cookies and that makes it unnecessary to login every time you want to check each mail. By default, a cookie can be accessed only by the server that put the cookie on your computer and it is invalidated once you leave the site.
2007-01-13 03:04:09 · answer #2 · answered by xScOde 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cookies are very small files that are saved on your browser. Websites usually save a cookie on your browser to save user settings and customizations, or to remember what you added to a shopping cart before you check out. Some reference sites use cookies to allow you to save bookmarks. An advantage to using cookies is that information can be saved and accessed later, without the user having to login. An alternative that may require a login is to save the information on the server instead. A login cookie can still be used to prevent the user from having to login between browser restarts.
2007-01-13 02:58:50 · answer #3 · answered by sheaparis 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cookies are little container files of information that are left on your PC when your browse a website.
HTTP cookies, sometimes known as web cookies or just cookies, are parcels of text sent by a server to a web browser and then sent back unchanged by the browser each time it accesses that server. HTTP cookies are used for authenticating, tracking, and maintaining specific information about users, such as site preferences and the contents of their electronic shopping carts. The term "cookie" is derived from "magic cookie," a well-known concept in Unix computing which inspired both the idea and the name of HTTP cookies.
Cookies are used by Web servers to differentiate users and to operate in a way that depends on the user. Cookies were invented for realizing a virtual shopping basket: this is a virtual device in which the user can "place" items to purchase, so that users can navigate a site where items are shown, adding or removing items from the shopping basket at any time. Cookies allow for the content of the shopping cart to depend on the user's actions.
Allowing users to log in to a website is another use of cookies. Users typically log in by inserting their credentials into a login page; cookies allow the server to know that the user is already authenticated, and therefore is allowed to access services or perform operations that are restricted to logged-in users.
Several websites also use cookies for personalization based on users' preferences. Sites that require authentication often use this feature, although it is also present on sites not requiring authentication. Personalization includes presentation and functionality. For example, the Wikipedia Web site allows authenticated users to choose the webpage skin they like best; the Google search engine allows users (even non-registered ones) to decide how many search results per page they want to see.
Cookies are also used to track users across a website. Third-party cookies and Web bugs, explained below, also allow for tracking across multiple sites. Tracking within a site is typically done with the aim of producing usage statistics, while tracking across sites is typically used by advertising companies to produce anonymous user profiles, which are then used to target advertising (deciding which advertising image to show) based on the user profile.
2007-01-13 02:56:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cookies are small files that are placed on your hard drive when you visit websites. These files contain information about your visit. Each site is different. When you log into a site like Yahoo and you want to stay logged in the cookie you get from Yahoo will store that information to keep you logged in.
2007-01-13 02:51:34 · answer #5 · answered by tedead 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Go to the tools menu on the top screen then go to internet options its like a pop up then just click enable on the pricacy screen
2007-01-13 02:49:10 · answer #6 · answered by Carl F 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
its just some backup file of the website witch computer save for further use
2007-01-13 02:52:29 · answer #7 · answered by exquisite Solutions 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are small programs inserted onto your pc to collect info and send it to the initiator.
2007-01-13 02:49:21 · answer #8 · answered by Dorothy and Toto 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
ha ha ah ahah a I am sorry that is funny.
2007-01-13 02:50:03 · answer #9 · answered by bliden 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋