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Cover Your Tracks - Google - 2/11/2007 23:07:46
I was reading PC Mag the other day and ran across an article on how Google is saving all of your searches (if you login to their search engine for something or another). And, here's how to erase and pause those searches if it's happening to you and you don't like it.
You can login to www.google.com/psearch and see what search history you have as well as remove it, and then pause/stop the history from collecting more.
Here's the article for more details.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2089160,00.asp
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RE: Cover Your Tracks - Google - 2/12/2007 7:51:35
This is strange. I use Google extensively to do web searches, and following the instructions in the PC Mag article, I logged into my Google account to review the search history they had on me. It's not only completely blank, but the "Pause" and "Clear History" buttons the article references are missing. The calendar on the search history page also shows no active links to bring up searches from prior days. Either Google is not tracking my searches or they don't want me to see the goods they have on me! I don't allow every Google cookie to be stored on my PC and that must be preventing their tracking my searches.
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RE: Cover Your Tracks - Google - 2/12/2007 12:49:02
As long as Google doesn't sell/give my information to someone else, I don't mind if they are recording my searches. If anything, I would hope they would do it to better their SE results. I think the best search engine will be one that brings results based on criteria of the person doing the search (gender/age/job/hobby).
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RE: Cover Your Tracks - Google - 2/12/2007 14:30:36
Hi Bobby
actually, Yahoo is aiming at that exactly. They are closer to launching 'Panama'. It will streamline your searches. Also, you can set your RSS feed through the recently released Tubes Yahoo.
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RE: Cover Your Tracks - Google - 2/13/2007 9:13:28
I got the same result as Jeepless.
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