(June 18, 2010 at 6:23 pm)mysoogals Wrote: why would a search engine log search resultsThe same reason any company keeps logs of it's customers. Even if you disable Web History, Google keep the log; it just isn't viewable by you. It's useful for dozens of reasons: advertisements, trends, stats, etc.
Google is a company providing a service (for free I might add). Why wouldn't it keep logs of how people use the service?