April 29, 2005

My Search history

I've started to use Google's "My Search History" service. I feel as if I've taken the next step in computing. Whilst people may be concerned over privacy, as you are storing a record of the things you are interested in on someone else's computer, I feel that the benefits really outweigh the concerns implicit to that. Consider how many times - for example - that you've searched for something, followed the link in your search engine and found that magic page, the page with exactly what it is that you were looking for. Google will record that moment for you and locate it in a calendar for a visual date search (I looked at it last week, last month) or you can search your old searches and find it that way; absolutely brilliant, instead of searching through every page you search through your old searches - a few hundred or a few thousand pages instead of millions of pages. Plus once you've logged in you seem to be able to use the separate search window found in Safari or Firefox, for example. For people that work across multiple computers, the ability to record your searches and go back to them is a godsend. You do need to have gmail mail account to log in and use it. I wonder if this is going to make bookmarks redundant?


Check it out at http://www.google.com/searchhistory/

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