Talk:Web bug
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[edit] HTTP cookie
I have submitted the article HTTP cookie for peer review (I am posting this notice here as this article is related). Comments are welcome here: Wikipedia:Peer review/HTTP cookie. Thanks. - Liberatore(T) 16:56, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Why is the article titled Web Beacon rather than Web Bug?
I was wondering why the main article was headed as "Web Beacon" rather than the term "Web Bug"
I had never heard the term "Web Beacon" until today, when I refered someone to the article on Web Bugs.
A simple google count is misleading, as the results for "Web Beacon" give the majority of results leading to sites that would like them to be perceived in a positive manner - advertising networks, large software companies, EULAs and website privacy policy pages, while they are called Web Bugs by the news media, privacy sites, anti-spyware companies, computer technology sites and online security sites. Google shows resouces for "web bug removal" but none for "web beacon removal"
Web Beacon sounds like it was a term thought up by some large marketing department to make the web bugs sound more acceptable to the general public. I'd go for the term that is used by the general public, not the term that companies with a particular barrow to push want used.
- I Agree! In my opinion, web beacon should be redirected to web bug, not the other way around.--Smarbin 04:41, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
- I also agree. --NealMcB 22:25, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Well if everyone agrees, then make a change!
