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2 Years of Search History
by Nathan on Apr.20, 2007, under Uncategorized
While reading my RSS feeds today, I noticed a news story stating that Google has updated their Search History page. Now you can have Google store info about every site you visit, with their “Web History”. So this got me thinking about my search Histroy. Since I use the gmail extension in Firefox, I am always logged into my Google account, thus making all search history available to Google. Two years ago today was the start of “Search History” for Googgle. Here are some of my stats. Mind you I almost never use any other search website.
- Total Google searches: 9646
- Top queries: digg, extension mirror, putty, gmail, trillian
- Top sites: en.wikipedia.org, digg.com, dev.mysql.com, wordpress.org, www.uah.edu
- Top clicks: The Extensions Mirror,
PuTTY: a free telnet/ssh, WordPress › Blog Tool, Digg / News, VLC media player - Monthly search activity: 1111 in Jan, 1017 in March, 911 in April
- Daily search activity: 1713 on Tue, 1399 on Fri, 1339 on Sun
- Hourly search activity: 880 at 3pm, 857 at 4pm, 814 at 2pm
I find some of this information amazing. I guess I didn’t know how may times I needed to find something on Digg, or get the program putty. Also as an interesting fact, I have never made a search in the 5am hour. Search can be useful but, have I given Google to much information about me?
Here is a list of Google Products I use, or have used.
- Gmail
- Reader
- Search History
- Talk
- Alerts
- Maps
- Analytics
- Notebook
- Personalized Homepage
Each of these products stores some kind of info about me. I’m sure I’m not the only person that Google has this kind of information on. There are probably thousands of people that have the same if not more personal information on Google’s servers. With this kind of information, can Google be considered “Good” or “Evil”? They have yet to do anything substantial with this information, but when they do, will it be a good thing?
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My name is Nathan Warner. I am a system administrator in Huntsville Al, member of Makers Local 256 and a semi-active Geocacher. Huntsville isn't the best city to have fun, so a lot of the time I make it fun. I helped start Makers Local and right now am working on @HSVsh a scavenger hunt in Huntsville. All of my contact info is at the bottom of the page. Thanks for stopping by! GeoCaching Stats
April 23rd, 2007 on 6:47 am
Yeah, I’m hardly logged into my Google account. Reading this reminded me to re-download that extension for Firefox though.
I don’t want Google knowing everywhere I go on the web though. Knowing my search history is more then enough.
April 21st, 2010 on 4:52 pm
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