What happens when you disable the search history?
A) Google no longer stores your search history.
B) Google no longer lets you see or download your search history.
A) Google no longer stores your search history.
B) Google no longer lets you see or download your search history.
C) Google stores search history, but it is not associated with your Google ID.
While have always had search history disabled, I regularly see "targeted" results that is obviously based on past searches.
That's why I always search using Anon mode or obscure browser (such as IE) to get more or less unbiased results.
If we are talking other data that may be used for tracking, I do have a static IP.
Besides, cookies don't store complex search histories. That would be stored on google's servers... which was the point (that search history is saved). I'd love to know how searches about unit testing with automake could be tailored from new client cookies to include results that are suspiciously similar to the many searches I made >1 year ago about Minecraft.
edit: Oh, and regarding the amount of uniqueness being leaked by my browser, panopticlick currently reports my browser's fingerpoint only 14.14 bits.
edit forget the above. I got an email "Your Google search history archive is ready" with a link to a Drive document. Which contained an html file saying basically "No Searches". I cannot tell if that is really correct though: I don't actively use the account let alone I remember if I turned of search history before doing any searches while logged in..