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WATBlog Spots - Google Records Number of Times & Last Time a Link was Visited (Exclusive)
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Hail the latest development deployed by the Google search team. While digging for some information on Adobe AIR using Google search (yes, WATBlog too relies on Google for searching), Ankit spotted a brand new feature. It seems Google has started to place cookies in the users’ computers to let them know if they had already visited a link from the search result, when it was last visited and also how many times was it visited. Although we still do not know how long is the cookie programmed to stay in the computer, this feature just might turn out useful for users who rely heavily on Google for their daily work.
By the way, here’s a screenshot to show that we are telling the truth 
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Google has been doing this for quite some time now. Time recording has always been part of personalized search results. You can disable logging by turning off search history.
I am not very sure or confident about this is new thing. Two problems.
(1)I’m observing this atleast since 2 years now. And (2)It’s based on yr login on computer not on cookies as I can see that on home computer when I visit from work computer so it works with email ID you are logged in.
Easy way to find out just delete cookies from your browser and check if still the case. I am not sure but it should show up after that too. (make sure you are logged in)
One more point, when you are logged in if you see your web search history everything is stored online with your log in ID which makes google not to store on cookies.
Hey Shayan, this feature has been active from many months, I think almots an year. Wheever a user logs in google usein the sign in option on the top right handside and then searches for something, this information is displayed for visted sites, this is not someting that is new
I think it has been there for a long time and shows up for the users who have logged into their google account. Is’nt it?
Its part of the google web history feature that every user who is registered on google has access to. http://www.google.co.in/history/?hl=en
Its been there for a long time and the information is stored on google servers via the web history platform.
old stuff.
Been seeing this for ages as well. Infact you can find a compilation of all search terms, frequency et al if u want.
“It seems Google has started to place cookies in the users’ computers” what the hack did u mean by that…..cos google has been using cookies since its inception…….
@ Raghav
Again, I just wish you had quoted the complete sentence. It doesn’t mean that Google has started placing cookies for the first time…what I wanted to convey that Google has been placing cookies for the first time in order to report times of visits to certain links in the search result.