Google tracks and analyzes everything you do on it. It's nice if you like to look back and find that site that you stumbled upon but can't find now. But the more you see on your history the more apparent that online privacy is a unicorn that is impossible to catch. It's disturbing how much Google and Facebook and Yahoo! Know about you just from your searches. Think it's a coincidence that you see adds for Ann Arbor, Michigan just as you start planning a trip? It's not. Big Brother Internet is watching and selling advertising specifically toward your interests.
But there is a way to delete some of your trail with Google.
After you are logged into your Google account, go to
http://Google.com/activity. This will show your history as far back as when you created your account.
You can see map searches, Google searches, Google drive entries, YouTube videos, and even blog entries. You can set a date range to delete from.
Or just delete certain searches.
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For more about deleting your Google history, go to
Lifehacker.com
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