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Google Adds Search History Feature
Philipp Lenssen writes "Google has released My Search History (Beta). Login with your Google account (like your Gmail account), and a search history feature will be integrated right into the Google.com homepage. You can then retrieve pages you've previously found by either clicking on calendar dates, or by performing a full-text search. Other features are available as well."
Hello, Web portal.
They had to do it sooner or later.
I can think of quite a few searches I've run that I'd hate to be archived and cross-referenced against my name.
On the plus side, this always opens the door to hilarious new 'Paris Hilton's hacked t-mobile' type tomfoolery.
"From the i-can't-believe-its-not-butter department, Slashdot reader AnonymousCoward writes 'rofl! I haxored google history, and guess what, Linus was searching the net for patches to his Windows 2000 machine! omfgroflolololo!!!OPijsdf0+++NO CARRIER'"
Well, that, or horse porn.
Attila the Hun... Thomas Edison... Hoover Dam... Aha! Jenna Jameson!
Clear history.
"Eh, honey, you see, my friend started this band named 'hot asian sluts,' so I was looking for their Web page."
"Every day for three months??"
"Um, yes. Sometimes well into that night. (Cough.)"
Wait.. so I can search for a search that I've searched for before?!?
and perhaps others can search through the searches that I've searched? Will I be able to search their searches of my searches?
whoa. my brain just exploded.
Starsucks
I was sitting down with my g/f and was Googling for something and it was happily showing a list of things that I had searched for, giving away the fact that I was looking for restaurants to visit.
Honey, it's not what it looks like! I promise!
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Now that makes for an interesting search history.
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
To quote a recent Penny-Arcade news post:
"This next statement could sort of open up into a tangential discussion on modern game design, but suffice it to say, there are no truly original games. There can't be, at least with modern console games, and I refuse to accept "What about Katamari Damacy?!?" Bullshit, I've played enough Super Monkey Ball and Marble Madness to know better. But you need to know recent games, landmark games, the major flops, and the highly expected upcoming releases, because we all copy game design from each other, in every game, going all the way back to Pong and SpaceWar. You need to be able to say "Well, that idea seems like a whole lot of work, when I know that we could just copy the scheme from Super Virtua Soul Machine 9 to do the same thing!""
The same could be said about computers and computer applications of all sorts. Nearly everything has already been done in one way or another, but it's just being built onto and made better (or in some cases, worse. [Insert mandatory MS bashing to get +5 Funny...]) This is a great idea as long as you're not some tinfoil-hat motherfucker.
So you can search for previous searches, but does it keep a history of your searches for previous searches? Can you search for previous searches for previous searches?
This sig is umop apisdn.
Search me.
Google will now show me relevent text ads based on my search history?
Just another piece of information to be subpoenaed.
Lawyer: "Ladies and gentlemen of the supposed jury, according to Google's records, the defendant clearly searched for 'download Briteney MP3,' which makes him guilty not only of attempted copyright infringement (punishible by up to three years in prison), but stupidity in the first and second degree, and one count of poor spelling."
Jury: "We find the defendant, Mr. John Dumas, guilty as charged."
Defendant: "It's pronounced Doo-maas!"
Judge: "Sentenced to time served closing popups."
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Oh no! what if Google, like TiVo, thinks I'm gay. http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/living/4662397 .htm
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I use Google at home, I use google at work.
Will google differentiate between my work box and home box. Will I get porn ads and what not showing up on the google screen while at work (potentially embarrising at best, could place my job in jepoardy based on my employers anti-porn/ anti things that don't belong in the workplace policy). The ads might be based on what I do in the privacy of my home, but this would be like a big electronic google cum stain showing up at work.
I probally should have posted this anonymously...
A fellow worker asked me for help. I started up the browser, went to google and managed to press "m" when the browser helpfully suggested "miss sweden nude". Well, at least I wasn't his wife :)
Thieves! Scoundrels!
I did some extra research, and it turns out that they stole the search engine idea from Alta Vista, the GMail idea from Hotmail, and the whole Internet idea from Al Gore.
Can't they do anything original?
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea...."
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Great now I'm going to get loads of enlarge your penis! ads in my email and at google...
There are 11 types of people, those who know unary and those who don't.
You now have the filelisting for KaZaa.