Google is now pushing their service called Web History out and promoting it on search results {image below}. With it you can view and search across everything you’ve ever done online from Google searches, web pages, images, videos and news stories.

Web History gives you the ability to manage and remove items from your web history account at any time. This is in line with their quest to offer the user more personalized search results on your past browsing and search history.

You have to enable the feature and have the Google Toolbar installed in either IE or FF as it relies on the PageRank feature from the toolbar to associate the web pages you visit with your Google Account. If you don’t want Google to know which web pages you visit you can simply limit the web history to searches.

Previously this feature was in beta testing and now with the inclusion of it on top of search results, for people that do not have it enabled, they seem to be eager to collect as much data as possible about what users do online - as if they didn’t know enough already! Of course the end user, which is you, seemingly benefits from this as well.

I’ve personally not enabled the feature as I don’t feel it necessary for my existence. But you may like it so give it a try.

I like how they put it though, with that air of excitement -

“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.”

Of course, you can pause the service at any time and even delete the entire web history, but the big question is: do you trust Google enough to send it all your online activity? Umm….NO!

{img courtesy google}

You can read more on their blog here.

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Hyder has been blogging for the past two years on this blog. He started Weborithm, his web company, in 2007 and along with designing blogs and websites also releases various web related products.