April 21, 2008, 08:19:06 AM
I'm not sure how to feel about this article at
Google Operating System. What it looks like is that Google will use your previous search results to tailor the current search. Say you search for Cleveland first and then hotels next, Google may assume that Cleveland hotels is what you're after on the second search.
From the side of a user that's using Google to find stuff I think this is a potentially great thing. Ignoring any potential privacy issues, the ability to have a search engine find what I'm looking for more easily is a direction that they should be working towards.
As a web developer I'm not sure I like this. I could search for "Houston photographer" and find my site on page 1 or 2 because of my search history and someone else could do the same search and my site not come up until page 50 because they searched for Whitney Houston last. On the other hand it should make it harder for one site to have a monopoly on good keyword combinations and give other sites a better chance for good spots.
One of the comments gives a tip that seems really creepy. You can get an RSS feed of your search history by using the URI
http://www.google.com/history/lookup?output=rss&num=100 . Replace the 100 with however many you want to see. It also lists any links that you clicked on from that search.
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