Remains of the Day: How Private Is Your Browser History Edition [For What It's Worth]

Firefox 3.5 downloads skyrocket, Bing captures an impressive share of search in its first month, and your browser history may be less private than you thought.

• Web2.0collage
  You may be surprised to find out just how much a web site can find out about your browsing habits. [via Download Squad]
• Firefox 3.5 gets 5 million downloads, 2.4% market share in day 1
  After just a day, Firefox 3.5’s real-time download stats showed 5 million downloads. As of right now, it’s already at 8.8 million and counting. [Mozilla Links]
• Microsoft’s Bing search wins share from Google
  It’s still no competition for Google (for now, at least), but Bing’s debut month was impressive. [Reuters]
• Microsoft to offer Family Pack for Windows 7 Home Premium
  Microsoft plans to offer a family pack for Windows 7 Home Premium users with up the three computers. No details on pricing. [ZDNet]
• Facebook Simplifies Privacy Settings, Calls Them Too Complex
  The popular social networking site is testing different privacy settings in an attempt to improve users’ ability to tweak their privacy settings. [PC World]
• New Blog Search tools: Feeds, Hot Queries and Latest Posts
  Google improves their blog search engine. This editor uses it occasionally for work-related research, but I can’t help but wonder if anyone else does. [Official Google Blog]