Eric Edelstein

Move over Digg and Delicious - here comes Google Web History.

I don’t know why they didn’t do this ages ago, although the privacy issue is going to become a HOT topic again.

When searching google you can now “note this” and the google web history will take note.

Meaning you can remember sites you thought were interesting, but MORE IMPORTANTLY FOR GOOGLE can also can allow google to find out which sites are attracting the most attention and thus should be more relevant (although I can just see the search spammers creating thousands of fake accounts to manipulate results - but with google having critical mass, maybe the sheer number of searchers they have will allow this problem to be a non issue)

Here’s what Google says about their “web history”:

 

• 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 what you’ve searched for on Google and which sites you’ve visited. You might not notice a big impact on your search results early on, but they should steadily improve over time as 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 on your web activity.