Google cookies to expire after two years
July 17th, 2007 | by Arun Mani |The lifetime of Google’s cookies has been significantly reduced from 31 years to 2 years due to feedback from users and privacy advocates. So, sometime “in the coming months,” Google’s cookies will automatically expire after two years of no use, meaning that any users that come to Google once, use the search, and never return will only have their search preferences stored on their computers for the next two years.
But why was it 31 years? My question goes towards both the extremes, why should it expire at all? and why not after one year? (this is not the low extreme any way). However Google believes there’s no point in keeping the cookie information for more than 31 years.