The Google-Plex Strikes

So, you've been clucking your tongue at those youngsters who don't have enough sense to cover their tracks on the internet. Posting all those inappropriate things on their SNW pages.

Until your employer decides to check out what you've been Googling.

Wha?

Consider this an adult (and student) alert -- Google's personalized search will keep track of all your past searches for you. And if you've been looking up naughty (or worse) things during company time, that may come back to haunt you as much as those beer-bong party photos by the fill-in-the-name-of-your-choice team party.

If you have a Gmail account, you may or may not have turned this function on. When you are logged into any Google account -- like the one used to make this blog, for example -- your googling can be more easily tracked. Notice, I said more easily.

If you go to the personal options of your Google account, you can turn this function off and delete any existing current search records. But any past functions will still live on in the Googleplex's stored back-ups.


Don't kid yourself -- they ARE watching.