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5 Years and 1 Day of Search History
by Nathan on Apr.21, 2010, under Uncategorized
I had to use Google’s search history today, and realized that it has been logging my search since April 20th 2005. I made a post after year 2 and year 3, got a little lazy last year, but I’m back with an update this year. Here is the info on my Google Search History Trends page for All Time.
- Total Google Searches: 29337
- Top queries: “3409 Governors Dr SW, Huntsville, Madison, Alabama 35805 (1st shop address)”, weechat, movies 35802, ubuntu
- Top sites: en.wikipedia.org, ubuntuforums.org, maps.google.com, dev.mysql.com, wordpress.org
- Top clicks: wordpress.org, TiddlyWiki, Net-Twitter, Gallery,Ubuntu Home Page
- Monthly search activity Hi/Lo: 2987 in Jan, 2177 in Jul
- Daily search activity Hi/Lo: 4967 on Tue, 3509 on Sat
- Hourly search activityHi/Lo: 2526 at 3pm, 2 at 5am
It looks like I finally made a couple searches in the 5am hour. After looking at those two searches, I can tell that happen during our trip to St. Louis. Also since this is kind of a post about how much Google knows about me, here is a list of all the Google products I use.
- Android Phone
- Gmail
- Reader
- Search History
- Talk
- Alerts
- Maps
- Analytics
- Voice
- Wave
- Accounts
- Docs
- Youtube
- Calendar
- FeedBurner
- Latitude
- Checkout
- Groups
3 Plus Years of Google Search History
by Nathan on Jul.25, 2008, under Uncategorized
Yesterday someone brought it to my attention that I had made a post last year about my search history. Then I remembered that I had yet to make a post this year. I can only go back as far as 6/4/05 which it a little over 3 years ago. Here some of the info on my Google Search History Trends page.
- Total Google Searches: 18475
- Top queries: digg, ubuntu, trillian, aapl, gmail
- Top sites: en.wikipedia.org, dev.mysql.com, digg.com, wordpress.org, thescripts.com
- Top clicks: http://iphone.fiveforty.net, TiddlyWiki, extension mirror, Trillian, WeeChat
- Monthly search activity Hi/Lo: 1976 in Jun, 1216 in Nov
- Daily search activity Hi/Lo: 3127 on Tue, 1399 on Fri, 2353 on Sat
- Hourly search activityHi/Lo: 1770 at 3pm, 0 at 5am
In the past year I believe Google has been saving more search history, because I have doubled my total searches since last April. Google has been saving map searches as well as good searches, all this added together I believe is what has brought my search total way up this year. If you didn’t notice I still haven’t searched during the 5am hour.
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
