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How To Remove Your Google Web History



Feb 29, 2012 2 Comments ›› Pat Dollard

(CNET) Do you know if Google is tracking your Web activity? If you have a Google account (for, say, Gmail) and have not specifically located and paused the Web History setting, then the search giant is keeping track of your searches and the sites you visited. This data has been separated from other Google products, but on March 1 it will be shared across all of the Google products you use when Google’s new privacy policy goes into effect.

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If you’d like to prevent Google from combining this potentially sensitive data with the information it has collected from your YouTube, Google+, and other Google accounts, you can remove your Web History and stop it from being recorded moving forward.

You can remove all of your Web History with the press of a button. (Credit: Matt Elliott/CNET)

After signing into your Google account, type https://www.google.com/history into your browser. (Alternatively, you can choose Account Settings from the pull-down menu in the upper-right corner of a Google product such as Gmail, Google+, or Google.com. From the Account Settings page, scroll down to the Services header and click on the “Go to web history” link.) If your Web History is enabled, you’ll see a list of recent searches and sites visited. Click the gray Remove all Web History button at the top of the page and a subsequent OK button to clear your Web History.

Just the way I like it, empty and paused.

This action also pauses the Web History feature so that it will no longer track your Web searches and whereabouts. If you’d like to fire it back up, simply click the blue Resume button.


  • Hagadaga

    You can click “Remove” and “Hide” and all that crap as much as you want, but the bottom line is it’s saved forever. Just because they tell you it’s “Gone” or out of view doesn’t mean it is.  It’s all available to be used against you in a court of law. Forever.   Quit “Logging in” to anything youtube/google/facebook.  You don’t need it, and you’ll feel better in the morning.  If you want to use google for search, use https://startpage.com/eng/

    Your welcome.

  • http://twitter.com/VintageHippie VintageHippie

    I disabled mine when I first signed up for google. I just checked my history and there was nothing there.  While that probably gives me a false sense of security, it appears that I did it right when I first signed up and turned it off right away.  :)