arstechnica.com— Google's new Web History feature provides a fascinating look at your web surfing habits, but to take advantage you'll need to give Google the permission to keep tabs on you. Faustian deal or no-brainer?
Apr 21, 2007View in Crawl 4
If you're not clued up on your "privacy rights" and you sign up for this service, and you suddenly regret it, it's your own damn fault.p.s stfu. Dugg down. I'm not going to use the service, I don't like it, but saying that it's immoral to OFFER the service is just plain wrong. It's not like they try to hide the fact that using the service requires that you send every web page you visit to google... when you enable it, you see a BIG WARNING!
Google already keeps a record of all searches from every IP, and apparently they don't erase these records. I forget the case or the name of the tv show, but it was one of those dramatized crime solving shows and they used a suspect's google searches to help convict him of murder. Looks like the only new thing Google is doing here is letting you in on what they are already doing if you so choose.
This feature is kind of like the one already available in Google Reader. The "trends feature" tells you when and at what time during the week you read your feeds but also how much of a feed you read.
The feature they mention that I'm most interested in is the full text search of previously browsed pages in my history. Is there any way I could do this in Firefox without having to send Google my personal browsing information? An extension maybe?
This kind of reminds the "What brand of toilet paper am I" and the "How hot am I" personality quizzes.Honestly, what's the point of this. Wouldn't you already know where you browsing?
cdmarcusApr 22, 2007
If you're not clued up on your "privacy rights" and you sign up for this service, and you suddenly regret it, it's your own damn fault.p.s stfu. Dugg down. I'm not going to use the service, I don't like it, but saying that it's immoral to OFFER the service is just plain wrong. It's not like they try to hide the fact that using the service requires that you send every web page you visit to google... when you enable it, you see a BIG WARNING!
krazytomApr 22, 2007
I was at the pornography store.... buying pornography.
meowbiusfoxApr 22, 2007
They aren't watching me stroke it are they?
fastfood15Apr 22, 2007
there's porn on the internet?
canyadigitApr 22, 2007
Google already keeps a record of all searches from every IP, and apparently they don't erase these records. I forget the case or the name of the tv show, but it was one of those dramatized crime solving shows and they used a suspect's google searches to help convict him of murder. Looks like the only new thing Google is doing here is letting you in on what they are already doing if you so choose.
mrgono3Apr 22, 2007
This feature is kind of like the one already available in Google Reader. The "trends feature" tells you when and at what time during the week you read your feeds but also how much of a feed you read.
ukonuApr 22, 2007
The feature they mention that I'm most interested in is the full text search of previously browsed pages in my history. Is there any way I could do this in Firefox without having to send Google my personal browsing information? An extension maybe?
capellathestarApr 22, 2007
This kind of reminds the "What brand of toilet paper am I" and the "How hot am I" personality quizzes.Honestly, what's the point of this. Wouldn't you already know where you browsing?
monsteretteJul 9, 2008
...hmmm...