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Google Search History becomes Google Web History

Google Web History
While Google's renaming things, the search giant has gone and changed its search history feature to Google Web History.

With the new name comes a nifty new feature: search your web history. Got a phrase stuck in your head and can't remember where you read it? If you perform a web search you might be inundated with irrelevant results. But perform a search of your personal web history, and since you'll only get results from sites you've visited that phrase might pop right out on top.

On the other hand, in order to gain this function, you've got to agree to let Google spy on all the sites you visit. Sure, that's nothing new, but somehow it feels a bit more big brother-ish now that you can search your history.

You'll need a Google Account and the Google Toolbar with PageRank enabled to play.

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