New 'Quick Answers' Allows You to Quickly Find Your Personal Data

Google announced a widespread expansion of their personalized search service. Now American-based English-speaking Google users can ask Google to index and search through any personal information available online or within email.

While logged into your Google account, try out Google's voice search with one of these options:

• Restaurant or Hotel Reservations: Ask for "my reservations" or "my hotel". From there you can easily access driving or transit directions.
• Schedule: Ask "What are my plans tomorrow?" You will see your flights, events, and reservations. A very convenient tool for when you are busy or traveling, especially when you primarily use Google products.
• Flights: Ask "Is my flight on time?" to get the latest information on your flight.
• Purchases: Ask for "my purchases" or "when will my order arrive" to get information on your current orders.
• Pictures: Ask to "show me my pictures from Thailand" or Hawaii, or all of my pictures. This is a fun integration of Google+.

To turn off these results completely visit Search Preferences, click Private Results and then you can choose whether or not Google will use your Private Results in response to your search queries.

Google has assured its users that all of your personalized results will be encrypted and only available to you while you're signed into your Google account. Some people may understandably scream about privacy but the important thing to realize here is that nothing new in terms of privacy has happened. Google has already gone through all of your personal data, indexed it AND profiled you long ago. Now they're just allowing you to access it.