How to see everything you’ve Googled while logged in
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A) Google no longer stores your search history.
B) Google no longer lets you see or download your search history.
edit forget the above. I got an email "Your Google search history archive is ready" with a link to a Drive document. Which contained an html file saying basically "No Searches". I cannot tell if that is really correct though: I don't actively use the account let alone I remember if I turned of search history before doing any searches while logged in..
While have always had search history disabled, I regularly see "targeted" results that is obviously based on past searches.
That's why I always search using Anon mode or obscure browser (such as IE) to get more or less unbiased results.
If we are talking other data that may be used for tracking, I do have a static IP.
Besides, cookies don't store complex search histories. That would be stored on google's servers... which was the point (that search history is saved). I'd love to know how searches about unit testing with automake could be tailored from new client cookies to include results that are suspiciously similar to the many searches I made >1 year ago about Minecraft.
edit: Oh, and regarding the amount of uniqueness being leaked by my browser, panopticlick currently reports my browser's fingerpoint only 14.14 bits.
C) Google stores search history, but it is not associated with your Google ID.
EDIT: In fact, perhaps users should be enabled to specify the amount of dimensions in the "cluster space" that Google is permitted to store.
Or, alternatively, specify the "uniqueness" of the data. So, for example, if I specify that I want my data to be 100% unique, Google will retain all of my information. But if I specify that I want my data to be 1% unique, Google will only remember that I'm a programmer that likes Japanese movies (and not the details, such as specific programming languages I use and specific movies I watch).
In fact, this could be enforced by allowing Google to only store N bits of information about me, where N is a user-defined constant.
And this would not only be useful from the viewpoint of privacy, but also from the perspective of not getting trapped in a filter bubble. [1]
Well I'm glad you've solved it. Better get on to Goog's Engineers to let them know!
That assumes you can take a pre-generated cluster and add information to it without having to recompute with all the original information.
It also assumes there's nothing you can do with personal search histories to either target adverts more effectively or add features, which would absolutely amaze me.
> Please note that even when this setting is paused, Google may still use searches you make within active sessions in order to improve the quality of your search results.
Maybe I should disable it...