Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Google Web History

Check out the official Google product blog explaining the benefit of having access to all of your search information from a short and longterm prospectives. While extremely useful for finding your own web trail, it now becomes a major privacy concern, since all of that info is housed on Google and not on your computer or within your own grasp. Yes, one can make the point that it has always resided on Google and was never available to the user, but now it is just that much more targetted.

While I am a proponent of having access to useful data and being able to track your own endeavors (mainly because my memore sucks...), this is a problem, because the web user has no control over the data or situation tied into it... a problem in my book. Nonetheless, this is the advent of new advancement in user searching - thanks Google!