Google Web History
If you have a Google account and you are logged in while using the Search service, it is most likely that your searches are saved in Google Web History. This is different from what are saved by your browser. Those that are saved in your browser are removed differently, while those on web history are saved and can be removed online..
So, what are saved in your own search history? A lot of your online activity in Google Search and other search related products:
- the keywords you typed, and the date and time you searched them.
- websites you visited, and how often you visit them.
- images you viewed on Image Search
- news articles you viewed through Google News.
- Products you searched and viewed through Google Products
- the Sponsored Links you clicked.
- the videos you watched from the search results.
- the addresses or places you searched in Google Maps
- blogs you visited
- and books you read or acccessed on Book Search
If you think of it, it seems Google knows a lot about your life if ever they access it. Your searches most likely tell what lifestyle you have, your wants in life. You wont search the web of something that doesn’t appeal to you or doesn’t mean to you in any way. Somehow your searches tell about your personality.
If your best friend or special someone also knows the login information of your Google account, then he/she will know any secrets you have, well, if there is. They just login to http://www.google.com/history/. It doesn’t matter if he/she uses a different computer.
Despite the privacy issue it can brought up, ‘Web History’ is helpful especially if there’s a website you visit again but forget what the site was. You can just google your own web history or just scan through your activity in a specific date ( if you remember when you’ve gone to the site). You can also analyze your own web activity. Know what are your top ten queries, sites, and clicks. You will be amazed to find out what they are.
Anyway, if you are concern about your privacy you can delete your Google web history. And when you search again, make sure you are not login to your Google account. You will find that out if you see your email address at the upper right corner of the Google search page. If you do this, what you will just worry about is deleting your search history on your browser.
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- How To Clear Your Web History
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- Web History Trends
How To Delete Your Google Web History
Your online searches is collected by Google Web History when you enable it, and you stay logged in to your account whenever you do your searches.
It collects not just your keywords and the pages you visited, but also the videos you watched in Google Video, the sponsored links you clicked, the photos you viewed on Image Search results. It records all your activities with Maps, Blog Search, and Book Search.
If at one time you just decided that keeping your search history isn’t a good idea anymore, and it is best to delete all tracks of your past searches then here’s how to do it.
1. Log in to your Account.
2. Click the ‘Edit’ link.
3. On the next page click ‘Delete Web History’.
4. Then it will ask you if you are sure you want to permanently remove Web History from your account. Check the box, if you are sure, and provide your password.
5. Click the ‘Remove Web History’ button.
How to Add Books in Google Book Search’s My Library
Most of the books I read before were just school textbooks, or self-help books. It was only when I decided to finish reading Edith Hamilton’s Mythology book, seven years ago, that I began to get interested on reading fiction books.
Today, I just finished reading Mitch Albom’s ‘For One More Day‘, and I added it to My Library at Google Book Search. My rate for the book would just be 3.5 stars, though it inspired me to become a great mother someday it was not as great as Tuesdays with Morrie. Maybe because I really haven’t lost a love one yet that I might not be able to relate to Charles Benetto’s feelings. However, through his story I learned to appreciate my mother’s love for me.
But anyways, the site really don’t allow a .5 rating so I would give the book 3 stars. 4 stars is too much. Here are some books I have added in my online library:
- Memoirs of a Geisha By Arthur Golden
- The Da Vinci Code By Dan Brown
- The Last Juror By John Grisham
- Purpose Driven Life By Rick Warren
- The Name of the Rose By Umberto Eco
- The Art of Styling Sentences: 20 Patterns for Success by Ann Longknife, K. D. Sullivan
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
“My Library” on Book Search was introduced on September 2007. Since then, users can create and manage a personalized library.
If you have an account and want to add books in your library, just type on the search box the title of the book you want to add. On the search results just choose a book to add, and click the link ‘Add to my library‘.
After adding, go to your library page then began labeling, reviewing, rating, and adding notes to each of your books. The link to ‘My Library’ is found on the upper right corner of the Book Search web page. Also search your customized selection of books whenever you need them. These collection of books can be shared to your friends by sending them a link to your library. So this is the link to my library, and this is the link to my RSS feed if you want to be alerted whenever I add a new book.
I really don’t have time reading all the books I bought, so I prefer to describe myself a bibliophile rather than a book reader. And I really just love the smell of new books. Probably, I would own a real library someday with two thirds of the books left unread.
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