Warning! Beware of what you are searching on the net.

Labels: Posted by Edmond on 22.11.08 at 10:45 PM

Warning, warning, warning! You are being monitored on your search activities.

Most people would be aware of and are active user of Google such as Gmail, Picasa and Google search. As long as you are logged on to Google, you are being tracked.

Don't worry, if you are feeling uneasy, you can disable the function.

"Your web history has been paused.
This service will not collect any history until you choose to resume. Resume. Learn more."

However if you want to continue to use this function, here are the advantage:

  • View and manage your web activity.
    You know that great web site you saw online and now can't find? From now on, you can. With Web History, you can view and search across the full text of the pages you've visited, including Google searches, web pages, images, videos and news stories. You can also manage your web activity and remove items from your web history at any time.

  • Get the search results most relevant to you.
    Web History helps deliver more personalized search results based on the things you've searched for on Google and the sites you've visited. You might not notice a big impact on your search results early on, but they should steadily improve over time the more you use Web History.

  • Follow interesting trends in your web activity.
    Which sites do you visit frequently? How many searches did you do between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.? Web History can tell you about these and other interesting trends in your web activity.

    • So the decision is up to you whether you find this function useful or you want to have some privacy over your search data.

    Explore Google History NOW.

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    What Search Patterns, Trends, and Surprises reveal people are searching?

    Labels: Posted by Edmond on at 9:10 PM

    Do you know that whatever keywords you googled will be complied into a database of search trends?


    Google zeitgeist will give you an insight into global, regional, past and present search trends. So what is actually zeitgeist? As defined in Google zeitgeist:

    zeit·geist | Pronunciation: 'tsIt-"gIst, 'zIt | Function: noun | Etymology: German, from Zeit (time) + Geist (spirit) | Date: 1884 | Meaning: the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era.

    "Zeitgeist" means "the spirit of the times", and Google reveals this spirit through the aggregation of millions of search queries they receive every day.

    Fastest Rising (global) search in 2007.

    1. iphone
    2. badoo
    3. facebook
    4. dailymotion
    5. webkinz
    Another interesting search trends to note:


    Also available is Google Trends, which allows a broad look at search query data and allows user to enter up to five search terms to compare their relative popularity over time.

    Google Hot Trends reveals the top 100 fastest-rising search queries right now and is updated throughout the day. However, currently Hot Trends is compiling search queries results only from the USA.

    Explore Google zeitgesit NOW.


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