My Search History shows you all the searches you've done on Google and the search results you've clicked on. It presents this information in ways they think are most useful. If you don't remember an exact search query, but you do remember when you did the search, you can use My Search History's calendar feature to check the searches you did on a given day and navigate to any of them with a single click. Full-text search over your history means you can easily find any search query or results page. It also shows you related history over time. You can review everything Google has ever shown you about "boobs", "spam" or "exotic cars" for instance by clicking the "Related history" link next to any search term when it appears.
My Search History also gives you useful info while you're searching on Google. Next to your search results, you'll see how many times you've visited a certain search result and the last time you viewed it. It is to help you find what you're looking for, it will grab pages you've already clicked on and put them above your regular web results. So there's only one problem...do you REALLY want Google or any other search engine to remember what you searched for? Think about that, especially guys (cough). Next time you type in a query of "naked Oprah pics", Google may be logging it and pointing it back to you! Ok, they won't be UNLESS you choose to opt-in to their latest beta test of My Search History. All-in-all a cool feature, but it scares me a little...not that I have anything to hide when I surf the WWW since you are the one surfing for naked Oprah pics and not me. ;)
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