Clear your Google History now!

Kingfish

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MSNBC today - Clear your Google History now!

...starting March 1, Google is going to unify all your privacy data from your various accounts, such as Gmail, YouTube and Web searches. What that means, in part, is that your past Web searches could become part of a big pot of information that's out there for Google to use to establish better profiles of its users for advertisers.
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I have several accounts though business activities; some are organized/managed by these associates. It is worth while to go through and check to see if you have History with them; some admins use it and some don't. Though I have not logged in on the primary account in weeks, it was still up-to-date on all my Google browsing! I have decided to switch search engines.

Remembering the days of AltaVista, KF
P.S. - Happy Leap-Day :)
 
I remember AltaVista. I thought that predated 1995. I was thinking I saw that back in late ’93-’94. I googled it and I guess I was wrong.

Remember Inktomi when it started out as a search engine?

There were about 5 or 6 of them including yahoo back in the beginning.
 
AltaVista was the first fast search engine at a time when Netscape owned the Internet Browsing business… I’m thinking IE 1 or 2, at a time when you could download the code to Mozilla and compile your own SGML browser. Google wasn’t born yet. DEC was still around, though not for much longer. People still thought UNIX had a chance as a mainstream O/S. CD-ROMs had been out for 2 years. Microsoft, which was about to release a brand new UX bound to the next O/S… was just starting to get on the ball testing SQL and ASP in the market that would in a year become TerraServer.com, the largest unified online database ever (at that time), which ultimately evolved into Maps.Bing.Com. Those were the days... 8)

From NPR - How To Adjust Your Privacy Settings, Before Google's Big Shift

This has more complete instructions for other associated businesses bound to Google, like YouTube...

Publically, I'm just a façade. Protect your privacy.
~KF
 
I'm with ya KF. Back when you could actually understand and trust what went on in the cloud. Did my G thang last night, thanks for the tip.
Brian L.
 
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