google.com/history

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Services For Your Web History

From a technical standpoint, Google Web History is one of those tools that's so well-executed it seems simple, or even obvious, the first time you see it. There's a basic timeline of your search history, with the ability to drill into specific search result histories for Google properties like web search, image search, news, Froogle (now renamed Google Product Search, though the UI for Web History shows the old name), Video, and Maps. There's even, astoundingly, a history of which AdSense Ads you've clicked on.

Some Google properties are missing -- Google Apps documents don't show up in your history, and the more loosely-connected services like Blogger, Reader, and Picasa are nowhere to be found. Plus, there's a peculiar disconnect with the Google Desktop Search tool's services -- the Timeline feature shared between both applications appears completely different, and your desktop history isn't integrated into the new service.

As you'd expect, there's a prominent and simple way to remove those scurrilous bits from your web history. And the improved presentation of an item as mundane as one's browser history reveals a recent strength of Google's: revealing data you already have access to. The Google Desktop Search tool on Windows made smart use of a disk indexing system that Microsoft had already built into Windows. In a similar way, the Web History service makes use of the Google Toolbar history to take old data and turn it into useful information through smart presentation.

Source: http://dashes.com/anil/2007/04/google-web-hist.html

Edit: It's an old feature, but shows you whats going on behind the scenes.

Is it retroactive? Or does it just work from the time you enable it?

https://www.google.com/history/edit

and then clear it there :) crisis averted!

I wish they still had the ability to remove irrelevant links from their search results. Nothing worse than seeing 100 results from other search engines and none for the actual thing I'm searching for just because a bunch of idiots keyword spammed the google bots.

plz put some more interesting info about what the link is in the OP

edit: ta dude

this worries me, I won't be signing up for this.

Just how much f***ing data do google want?

Wow I don't remember signing up for this but it has my history back to 2007. Kinda scary.
Although it has a few things that I didn't search for in its history, even today.

i always have google-analytics disabled on every webpage I visit. is that the reason I also don't have anything in my history?

last edited by Phooks at 19:42:01 03/Sep/10

Also, why does the tin foil hat have antennas? Kinda defeats the purpose.

ive done 4150 searches

Yeah I turned this off a long while ago when I came across it.

My history was....alarming.

edit: ta dude

I'm not your dude, guy.

It's funny that the earliest thing in my history (mid 2007) that I was searching for I still cannot find. At least if I mention it here there'll be one hit next time... So tempting.

www.google.com/dashboard might also be of interest

i always have google-analytics disabled on every webpage I visit. is that the reason I also don't have anything in my history?

I've got every google extra service blocked on my router. Analyze that.

edit:

Web History relies on Google Toolbar to associate the web pages you visit with your Google Account.

Who installs that s*** anyway? Toolbars are for girls who visit justine bieber websites.

Remember a long time ago when people got angry at Alexa for doing the same thing? WHy aren't people getting angry at google for doing stuff that companies years ago used to get chastised for? Does everyone really trust google that much?

last edited by Whoop at 21:52:27 03/Sep/10

My history shows only stuff I searched for today.

I wish I'd turned this on years ago, I'd like to see how my searches degenerated from like 2AM onwards on Sat/Sun morning

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