Privacy? Probably not, but this might help.

I use Google. You use Google. Everybody except Bill Gates (who uses Bing at work, and Google at home) uses Google. Heck, I even call him Uncle Google. Until now, he was the likable, bookworm uncle who in my mind was a museum curator/librarian. Geeky, and shy.

Now, though Uncle Google is the hirsute, balding fat uncle who comes to dinner on holidays and leers at your sister-in-law. 

From the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

"On March 1st, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1st as well as data it collects on you in the future. Until now, your Google Web History (your Google searches and sites visited) was cordoned off from Google's other products. This protection was especially important because search data can reveal particularly sensitive information about you, including facts about your location, interests, age, sexual orientation, religion, health concerns, and more. If you want to keep Google from combining your Web History with the data they have gathered about you in their other products, such as YouTube or Google Plus, you may want to remove all items from your Web History and stop your Web History from being recorded in the future."

To opt out, follow these simple instructions: sign in, go to google.com/history, and choose "Remove All Web History." This also revokes your consent to have your search history recorded going forward.  

Unfortunately for some, this will force you to rebuild some searches. For everything, there are trade-offs, I suppose. I can recreate a search easily enough. I don't need anyone knowing I searched for {+squirrels +"silver hammer" +blind +Shakespeare - android +nuts -testicles +shiraz - sirah} just last week.

 I dunno about you, but I'm heading there now to take care of my quasi-privacy.