» Google Web History Search

Has this ever happened to you? A friend asks you to recommend a great web hosting company for a new blog he/she wanted to start up. You remember reading a review of an excellent web hosting company, so you say of course! You start going back through the websites you read daily to look for it. After going through several sites unable to locate the review you start checking your web history to look for sites it might have been on. No luck.

You KNOW you read about it recently, but you just can’t remember where and can’t locate it. This is something that happens to me from time to time. I usually end up stumbling on it after the fact but it would be great if there was a way to search through my history. This is where Google comes in. They want to start indexing your web history. While the idea seems excellent at first, there are many people who just don’t seem comfortable with Google indexing their surfing habits. Who will have access to this information? Our browsers keep a history of the web sites we visited, but we can also delete it with a click of a button. Will this be possible when Google indexes it?

Google understands the fear some people may have about this feature and that is why it is disabled by default. Until Google recieves permission to begin indexing your web surfing, the feature will be disabled. If you can get over the fact that Google will be storing every single web page you visit (yes, even those sites!) this new search service will become very valuable. Not only will it make finding an old website you visited much easier, it will help with regular searches as well by bringing in more relevant results based on your previous web surfing history.

If you want to try this out, visit the Google Web History page. If you have more questions regarding this new feature from Google, try reading the Google Web History FAQ.

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