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Introducing Google History

On my daily surf I suddenly came across a "search your browsing history" link at Google.

That link took me to google.com/history. Since this is the first time I'm hearing of this, I can only tell you what is written on that page:

View and manage your web activity.
You know that great web site you saw online and now can't find? From now on, you can. With Web History, you can view and search across the full text of the pages you've visited, including Google searches, web pages, images, videos and news stories. You can also manage your web activity and remove items from your web history at any time.

Get the search results most relevant to you.
Web History helps deliver more personalized search results based on what you've searched for on Google and which sites you've visited. You might not notice a big impact on your search results early on, but they should steadily improve over time as you use Web History.

Follow interesting trends in your web activity.
Which sites do you visit frequently? How many searches did you do between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.? Web History can tell you about these and other interesting trends on your web activity.

I'm gonna take it for a test toast now and see what it is :-)

Update 1
Okay, a quick stare at the Google History site reveals, that Google History as actually active if you have a Google Account. You don't need to activate anything, if you log on to Google History now using your Google Account, you'll see what sites you've visited and what you've searched for while you were logged in.

One question remains: Is that a good or a bad thing? I for one would perhaps prefer, that you'd need to active your Google History.

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Google, Internet, Search Comments 0 Oct 1st, 2007