That is what I believe everyone is concerned about and you made a very interesting point here. Strangers don’t matter that much but those who do know you matter quite a lot when it comes to privacy concerns.

Makes one stop and think now doesn’t it?

Oh yeah…Welcome to the blog!

But will feel bad, if someone close to me gets to read all that….because there are few things which you’ll not like to share with your known ones.

Sorry for the delay in replying but I work a day job.

I use to sign in also early on (before iGoogle but iGoogle’s just a name change) but I found that the searches became a bit too personalized for my taste where sometimes I got more relevant results when I was logged out. I don’t log in now unless I want to get at my account stuff. Have you thought of deleting your search records using your account settings? It’s been a long time but I believe you can delete selectively also.

On ads…how long have you had your blog up and running? Obviously it’s been up long enough for your to get a PR2 but sometimes time online counts also.

Though not exactly what you’re after, IMHO Google sucks. I can’t get an adsense account. Some of the crappiest sites on the web have them, but I can’t get one. yahoo won’t either.