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Google Adds Search History Feature

Posted by timothy on from the film-at-11 dept.

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."

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  1. Finally a Web portal by joshdick · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hello, Web portal.

    They had to do it sooner or later.

  2. Yikes! Privacy concerns for the unwary by Chairboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Most used feature: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.)"

  4. Re:Paranoid here we go.. by ShaniaTwain · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  5. Re:Safari likes to cache searches too by Hatta · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  6. Re:Paranoid here we go.. by FlopEJoe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh no! what if Google, like TiVo, thinks I'm gay. http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/living/4662397 .htm

  7. What about employers by protolith · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

    1. Re:What about employers by Niten · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hmm... but is there really anything odd about that? Their corporate mantra is "don't be evil". Guns kill people; porn, unless you suffer from some very extreme medical condition, does not.

  8. Re:Paranoid here we go.. by Karl+Tacheron · · Score: 4, Funny
    See http://www.google.com/jobs/britney.html.
    Add the extension .mp3 to each of those.
    You now have the filelisting for KaZaa.