Google – My Activity
This looks like fb comment page than a hacker news one.<p>So I just downloaded all of my search activity into nice JSON files, and now I am going to apply a bit of data science and magic stuff using Python and Node.JS and I will have a nice profile of myself for the past 11 years:<p>1) What kind of questions did I ask google? (beginning with how, when, where etc) - how do these questions connect to my personal and career development?
2) Apply some sentiment analysis using sentiment.js on the search terms and find out if the particular search term was positive, negative or neutral (this will give me a nice overview of my mood for each day I searched for the last one decade)
3) do some filtering and data massaging to pick out the exceptions (ok just a cursory look at the file helped me discovered a forgotten website project I did 10 years ago as part of college summer project - a work I am extremely proud of during that time and even now.) - which days, months, the year I searched the most (or what events triggered the searches - a breakup, a job search or a side project)
4) discover interesting patterns of my search profile (what I searched most during college time, after college when searching for a job, before marriage, after marriage etc.)
5) make a video on the lines of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=nnsSUqgkDwU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=nnsSUqgkDwU</a><p>so many f<i>cking brilliant things I can do with my data. But what? Google has a copy of the same too? </i><i>baby cry</i>* What am gonna do? In a larger scheme of things, my data profile is just too insignificant.<p>To quote from the front page of Hacker News post, &quot;The second volume of “My Struggle”, Karl Ove Knausgaard’s enormous, maddening, brilliant autobiographical novels, contains some depressing life advice. “If I have learned one thing,” he sighs, “it is the following: don’t believe you are anybody. Don’t bloody believe you are somebody…Do not believe that you’re anything special. Do not believe that you’re worth anything, because you aren’t.”<p>Not worried if Google tracks a skipped song history or an irrelevant app install on the gazillionth device I own. More worried about google&#x27;s anticompetitive behaviour (blocking youtube on edge chromium and more recently making jobs of ad blockers even difficult) and even more larger questions such as what if Google starts to non exists tomorrow? Life after Google?