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If you have a Gmail Account, your credentials also work as your Google Account and vice versa. What does this mean?

As long as you’re logged in to your Gmail Account, all your activities on different Google Sites (Google Search, Google News, Google Maps) will be recorded. Google gives you insight in your Web History and also allows you to switch recording on and off at any time, default is on.

If you have installed the Google Toolbar for your browser of choice, you can even go one step further: You can enable Google to record every website you visit! This is your so called “Attention Data”. We believe that nobody should own this data except you yourself and we are heading to support the full Attention Trust Standard as soon as we come out of Beta.

Google does not support Attention Trust yet, but at least offers a private RSS-Feed of your Web History, so you can export your Attention Data to other applications. By giving YoWhassup access to your Gmail Account we will backup your searches, the web pages you clicked, images, videos, news stories, even the maps you found. The good news is: with YoWhassup now you can do more with your data - YoWhassup lets you bookmark, tag and share important search results with your contacts in a snap. No more “look what I’ve found” or “send this link by email”, a simple click instantly makes the results you think are important visible to your friend, contact or your whole network!

As long as you do not intentionally publish parts of your Google Web History, your data is kept absolutely top-secret and is only visible to you. You can abandon the recording and backing up of your Google History anyway by clicking a simple checkbox.