Some Tips On how to avoid or remove all saved search items on Google
By at December 27, 2009 | 9:26 pm | Print
Google is coming everyday with some or other new features.With its Personalized Google Homepage. You can customize with news, movies, weather, stock market reports and more. But one thing which we should take care of is that Google is also saving your search history. Every person, place, thing, or word you look up is stored in your history (same goes for the Google Toolbar). This can be cleared or paused on your end, but it will still be saved on the Google server. It’s in their Privacy Policy:“You can delete information from My Search History, and it will be removed from the service and no longer available to you. However, as is common practice in the industry, and as outlined in the Google Privacy Policy, Google maintains a separate logs system for auditing purposes and to help us improve the quality of our services for users.”
Don worry if you have a Personalized Google Homepage.
Some Tips On how to avoid or remove all saved search items on Google:
Click the “My Search History” link then “Remove Items”. Put a check next to the items on the list you want removed, or select “All”. Finally, hit the “Remove” button.If you don’t want Search History activated, just click the “Pause” link. Again, the search info still goes to Google, but it doesn’t show up in your search history display. To turn S.H. back on just press “Resume”.
Google Toolbar also keeps your history, but it doesn’t track you like the Personalized Homepage. To turn off…
you looked up.
Go to the “Options” button and select the “Search” tab.
Uncheck “drop down search history”, “Save the search history…”, and “Automatically search…”
Press OK.
Now only you will know about your toolbar searches As for the personal homepage searches… at least no one outside of Google or the government can see what you have seen.