Not so fast...
This only applies to the average person who uses Google to conduct a search. If you have a gmail account and did not opt out of Web History the privacy policy for Web History allows Google to keep all of your personal web activity on their servers forever...Searches, Videos, Images everything.
When you open a gmail account you are not given an option to opt out of their policy that allows them to store all of your emails on a back-up server forever.
-- Google General Policy --
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/another-step-to-protect-user-privacy.html
-- Web History Policy --- http://www.google.com/history/intl/en/privacyfaq.html#share
-- GMAIL Policy ---
http://gmail.google.com/mail/help/privacy.html
Biting the hand that feeds IT
