Apr 22 2005

Look!Goo­gle lis­te­ned to my idea! January 7th, I sent this email to their ideas factory:

I often search for mul­ti­ple things and find the ans­wers I am loo­king for. Howe­ver, it is rare that I book­mark the pages or the search strings I ente­red after gai­ning the know­ledge I seek. My his­tory keeps only a limi­ted num­ber of searches made and sif­ting through the past pro­ves time con­su­ming. So; say I wished to once again find the page which held the infor­ma­tion I searched for over a month ago — if I did not remem­ber the site or the search term, or say the site appea­red on page 90 of results, it could once again be awfully time con­su­ming fin­ding the page again.

My sug­ges­tion is some sort of his­tory that is saved to your goo­gle pro­file (much like the won­der­ful froo­gle wish­list!). Something that
saved the search string, the pages clic­ked and pos­sibly some way of high­ligh­ting the page that had the answer.

Deve­lop­ment of this could allow peo­ple to make their lists public (e.g. through an atom feed) and com­pi­la­tions of search strings and
ans­wers could further aid the goo­gle search engine through some sort of addi­tio­nal ranking.

Any­way, this is my idea and I hope you like it.

Two days ago they relea­sed this:
Goo­gle Per­so­nal Search History

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