It all starts as an interesting service idea from Google: wouldn't it be great to allow people to save all of their bookmarks into their Google account so that they had them wherever they were? Then add to that the ability to save all of your past searches through Google into your account as well! And the final piece of the evil trifecta is that it then will suggest or alter your search results based on all of the above so that it's more "personalized." All resulting in Google's new service, "Google Web History."

At first glance this sounds interesting of course, after all who hasn't been in that bad situation where you're on someone else's computer and you can't find what you need because it's stuck in your laptop's browser? Or sure Google should be able to provide much more relevant search results if it's based off of my previous activity and tendencies. But then some of the alarm bells start going off on a personal privacy level...do I really want all of this data playing together? But it gets worse!

Now imagine that you're using someone else's computer to do some work or just to mess around and then when your done they can see everything you've done, regardless of whether you cleared cookies, and cache...because it's linked to the google account and not simply the browsers temp data. Here's the real world example where one of the early adopters and let his wife use his computer and afterwards saw everything she did. The alternative is equally true that if you have the service turned on and someone fires up your browser then they can start looking through everything you've searched on for the last year or two, as well as see what kind of sites you frequent...

I'm probably being paranoid, but considering all of the identity theft and other data related scares, it seems a bit much to have that much data floating around...especially if the government gets involved using the Patriot Act.