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Geocities Places Web Bugs on Personal Web Pages

Geocities and other providers of free personal web pages have placed web bugs on others� pages in order to track Internet users.

Web Bugs Are Tracking Use of Internet, New York Times, August 14, 2001 (registration required).
Web Bugs, A Study of the Presence and Growth Rate of Web Bugs on the Internet, Cyveillance, August, 2001 (requires identification for access).