We spend a lot of our online time searching for the answers to simple questions and complex queries. Sometimes, we make searches that we wish to keep private, things like personal medical advice, financial enquiries about investments and future securities etc. It is understandable that some users may feel uncomfortable with the fact that their search history is kept online in the hands of a third party.
What makes things worse is when the searches are used to serve personalized ads, which will be available for anyone using your machine to see. In this post, we are going to show you how to delete your search history from the more popular sites on the Internet, to better safeguard your privacy. Also included are tips on how to opt out of having your searches tracked on these services.
If you are logged into your Google profile when making a search query or clicking a link on the results page, your choices will be logged in, to give you better results in future searches (and of course, to serve you better ads). If you want to opt out of this, you can remove your searches from your profile.
How To Delete Your Searches
Go to the Google Web History page to view every single query you ever made on their site. You can remove select searches, or all of your past searches.
To remove all of your search queries, click on the box next to the Remove Items box and then click Remove Items. If you would like to delete individual items, tick those items before clickingRemove Items.
After this, to make sure that Google doesn’t record your web history, you can turn off your Web History by clicking the Settings in the top right corner and select Turn off.
