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April 22, 2005

Google Personal Search

The latest development in the "Google: Good or Evil?" debate is Google's launch of My Search History, a new tracking tool that keeps a detailed history of a person's web search. All you have to do is to create a custom account (Gmail users automatically have access) to search over your personal query history. People using the new tracker can search their own history of web pages found on Google, use a calendar to navigate to any day in their search history, and get additional information from search results, such as when they last viewed a page and how often they've seen it.

More information on privacy concerns here:
Google Personal-Search Tracker Raises Privacy Concerns

And on the flip side, a more balanced article about the pros and cons of My Search History on ZDNet:
Google search gets personal

Posted by chan at April 22, 2005 02:49 PM