Friday, February 02, 2007

Being embarassed by your search queries (or worse)

Cuneyt posted this today. Everyone in the office kinda freaked out a bit when he mentioned his problem few days ago.

Karen's story is a good case study of the 'bug'. I can imagine more embrassing (do I dare say 'terrible') scenarios.

The part that kills me is fact that you have to ask somebody else: 'what exactly did you saw?' If you deleted your history, you wouldn't remember what you looked for, while the other person may still have all your recent searches listed. You wouldn't know what the other person saw. How would you ask about it, if you see their login id on top of your Google search page? Do you ask Google?

Do you share your laptop with friends, family? Do they login to their Google account while using your Windows account? Do you want to check your browser(s) now? :)