#google knows

Here's another little bit of personal information about you that Google knows -- all the places you've been on Google Maps. And you can actually review all of those locations on Google Maps, including the date where you visited those places. Just go to www.google.com/maps/timeline. The interactive maps will put red dots on places you have been to ever since you've used Google Maps. So the ones shown here are my location record and some of them are not indicated -- like the UK, Pakistan, Spain, Germany and The Netherlands -- since I did not use Google Maps when I was there. There was some sort of mass panic last night when Google was spewing a warning "this site may harm your computer" on all their search results. People search on Google were shocked and confused as if the search engine itself was hacked. Connie took a screenshot from her browser of what turned out to be human error from some engineers over at Google: The incident happened sometime between 6:30 a.m. Read more in our articles including "Google Knows: All the places you've been on Google Maps" and "The day Google broke the Web".