Personal Search Trends
It is Wednesday so, of course, Google felt compelled to release a new feature. For those of us using search history, we can know see trends such as a graph of which hour of the day is the most searchy. Did I just coin a phrase?
Additionally, it displays your top searches over the time period. It is a nice feature and one that most probably wouldn’t want to share with their boss. Search is critical to productivity between 1 and 5 pm apparently.
Naturally, there is a post about this in the Google Blog.
I think there is a certain sense of naivete over at Google about the fact that people get freaked out when someone has a hold of information like that. When will we have the first subpoena for google search history? This type of data has already been used in court, now you don’t even have to have the browser cache. If the end is near why am I still smiling.
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Peter wrote:
so what do you think of google analytics? have you tried it out?
i tried it when it first came out but i couldn’t get it working right and lost patience with it. i ended up getting angry at it because all the websites that now start using google analytics have a bit more of a lag because it has to connect to google with every page request. that, along with many of the ads people put on their blog sites now, ruin my marginal increase in web surfing enjoyment from my new 7mbps cable modem connection.
Posted on 22-Dec-05 at 9:54 am | Permalink
mymo wrote:
You know what, I have been meaning to post on this topic. I am glad you brought it up.
Posted on 23-Dec-05 at 2:24 am | Permalink