Google enables search history by default for all Workspace clients – Computer – News

By the end of March, Google will enable search history by default for all workspace clients, including users who have disabled the feature. The company wants to separate workspace data from other data it collects.

Administrators can now choose which users can use Web & App Activity. If this is disabled for all users, users will not be able to turn on the feature on themselves. If the administrators themselves do not do anything with the setting, users can enable or disable it themselves.

Web & App Activity will be replaced by a new search history setting starting March 29, called Google Workspace Search History, Let Google know. The company plans to migrate workspace clients and will enable the new tracking option by default for all users, even if the Web & App Activity option was previously disabled. Writes, among other things, Hacks. Users can turn the new feature on and off by themselves and manage their search history.

According to Google, the “Web & App Activity” setting will remain, but after March 29, it will only be used to control the storage of “search data from additional Google services”. This setting will no longer work with workspace services such as Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs, Chat, or Calendar, because it will be replaced with “Google Workspace Search History”.