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Google Offers “Download Your Entire Search History” – and How to Turn it Off and Delete It

Google has announced the ability to download an archive of your entire Google search history. This, of course, means that unless you at some point turned it off, Google has been archiving every single search that you have ever done in Google. Here’s how to not only download your Google search history archive, but how to delete it, and how to turn Google search history archiving off.

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How to Find and Search Your Paypal History in the New Paypal Interface

With the new Paypal interface, you may be wondering just “where the hell is my Paypal history?” And more specifically, how can I search my Paypal transaction history for an email address, a name, or a transaction or other ID, like you used to be able to do? If you are trying to find your Paypal history, here’s how to find and search your Paypal history with the new Paypal dashboard.

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Twitter Announces New Feature That Allows Users to Access Archives to Download Tweet History

Twitter users will soon start seeing #TwitterArchive trending. Twitter has announced that they are now allowing users to download their entire archive history to store for their own personal files. The archiving feature will allow users to download past tweets and retweets, and users can look at their archives by month and search keywords, hashtags, usernames and phrases.

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Today’s Children Will Have to Change Their Names to Escape Their Digital Past, Says Google CEO

Will today’s children have to change their names to escape their digital past? In a nutshell, this disturbing possibility is what Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, suggested could happen in a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, as reported by the Daily Telegraph.

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A Blog About History that Has Something for Everyone

Every so often we come across a website so well done – so interesting – so darned compelling, that we have to tell you about it. Such is the case with the subject of today’s article, a history blog where every single day, without fail, we learn something new… something that makes us say “Hey! I didn’t know that!”