ANIL DASH — Today, Google's released Google Web History. It's a brilliant, powerful, even insightful tool that will undoubtedly worry those who were concerned about privacy in the early days of the web's popularity. It doesn't help that Google now owns DoubleClick, and all those worries about cookies are amplified that Google actually stores all of this data on its computers, not yours, tied to an identity that might well also be linked to your email, office documents, your instant messages, and of course your browser history itself, courtesy of the browser toolbar. [Anil Dash, an executive at Six Apart, remembers the fears in the 1990s about Doubleclick's Orwellian monitoring of users' behavior; and wonders when they'll become alarmed by an all-seeing Google.]

















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