I was playing around with my Google account whilst configuring Google Reader for my new iPhone (more on that later).

In the long list of Google services I seem to have collected was one named ‘Web History’.  I was stunned to discover this option is a history of all the web searches I had done over several months!

I felt a little odd looking through my old search history - its not like there is anything ‘wrong’ in there - but I felt deeply disturbed that Google had been tracking this stuff for a very long time and I was completely unaware of the fact (no feedback during searches, nothing ‘obvious’ in terms and conditions).

I’ve turned it off and deleted the history.  As far as I’m concerned it is simply not right that Google collects this kind of information simply because I’ve chosen to use their other services.

Monday, July 14th, 2008 @ 10:33 pm Technology
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