Do You Know You Can See Anything You Ever Googled?

[Jonny Kansas]

Please guys. Give me a little credit...Remember, I'm an IT guy. And she has her own computer and no access to my passwords.

 

[gadgetrants]

That also means your right 50% of the time. I am not sure but according to Gizmondo's article it includes the email subject line. Can't say for sure if the body of the email is included.

Yeah but remember that a broken clock is right twice a day! LOL

It's just an educated guess, but from peeking at the Gizmodo article, I'd imagine that "the subject lines of my private emails" might mean "the keywords I've used to search for my emails in Gmail." Again...we need a brave volunteer to download all their data and report back. Meanwhile, you can find me here:

-Matt

 

[Jonny Kansas]

I mean, I'll do it, but I'm not really concerned. I don't really email about anything all that sensitive. And I rarely use search in gmail. If anything, I search "me" or "that guy I was emailing's address" to find all by either of us. Never by subject line content.

 

[Ollie]

Yeah but remember that a broken clock is right twice a day! LOL

It's just an educated guess, but from peeking at the Gizmodo article, I'd imagine that "the subject lines of my private emails" might mean "the keywords I've used to search for my emails in Gmail." Again...we need a brave volunteer to download all their data and report back. Meanwhile, you can find me here:

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-Matt

I followed the links, signed into my account, and received a download of my data. It was empty. I don't have my browsing history turned on and there were no options to select anything like emails, etc.

 

[Jonny Kansas]

I followed the links, signed into my account, and received a download of my data. It was empty. I don't have my browsing history turned on and there were no options to select anything like emails, etc.

You're so boring Ollie...

 

[Jeffrey]

Personally, I'm not interested in the download. I did enjoy seeing the amount of searches I do... I never would have thought it was as high as it is.

 

[Ollie]

You're so boring Ollie...

Thank you sir! That is precisely the type of image that I attempt to convey

 

[gadgetrants]

OK, pulled my head out of the sand and gave it a try. Not nearly as scary as I feared...the archive looks like a giant timestamped list of anything I've searched for since 2007. An interesting feature is it seems to pool from a lot of places...not just Google search but also Google Now searches from my phone, Gmail message searches, basically any service connected to Google in which I pressed the ? and searched for something. Had to look at the search terms I used to figure that out though -- it wasn't obvious by the archive syntax. But what really piqued my interest is that this morning I poked around on Amazon a bit and that showed up too. Didn't think Amazon was a Google service.

-Matt

 

[cr6]

"OK Yahoo" doesn't have the same ring to it. [emoji38]

S5 tap'n

 

[gadgetrants]

UPDATE: I guess I overlooked something important....I was full bore on downloading my search data, and failed to notice that the page itself has an exhaustive list of my browsing activity. NOT JUST searches, but also any website (full URL apparently) for all my browsing. INCLUDING image thumbnails when I did image searches. Phone included, I assume.

Guess I'll be hanging out in incognito mode a little more often!

 

[leeshor]

I stopped Google from tracking my history. I can even tell you the date, as it was the last one on record. January 28, 2010