Quick Tech Updates

This one is for you Google addicts out there. I love google. It is clearly rewriting the way we do things on a daily basis. Their gmail and google docs are very popular and their search engine is widely used. And don't even get me started on some of the neat concepts and ideas in google labs. But did you know that if you are have a gmail account / google account, then google tracks your information such as search history? I read an article the other day about a new feature in Google called google dashboard. Sure enough, I can go back and look at my search history - when logged into gmail- for the past 2 and 1/2 years! I guess it is a useful feature if I wanted to look back at something I had searched for, but I am not sure why I couldn't just search again. I guess it is useful if you are worried that someone is using your computer to look up inappropriate subjects. But I couldn't help feeling just a bit "invaded" when I learned that they were tracking my history. Something about seeing exactly what I was reading in April, 2007 makes me paranoid.