Google Web History - what NOT to do with your Google account

30 Aug GoogleAccountStuff 12 comments

www.google.com/history

While this is part of the Google Account series of posts, it’s probably more likely a feature that many users will wish to disable, especially those with privacy concerns. On the other hand, many people will probably find it interesting and useful at times as well. In a nutshell, Google Web History basically logs all of your Google searches for the past 2 years (you must be logged in to your Google Account) and let’s you look through these logs. It also uses that information to provide you with some extra features such as displaying your search trends and tailoring your future search results according to your tastes. It will even recommend you links it thinks you will like.

For anyone concerned with privacy and security, the above YouTube clip is from Google and shows how you can stop the service, as well as deleting individual search history items or your entire web history if you wish. Although the probably biggest risk of other people seeing your Google Web History is them knowing your log-in details, so always remember to log-out on public computers and use good passwords.

This article is part of a series showing you stuff you can do with your Google Account.

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  6. jim
    03 Oct 08
    3:17 am

    thanks for the info

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    08 Oct 08
    3:09 pm

    thanks great info…… can it cause any harm in future, if we dont disable it.

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    13 Oct 08
    7:33 pm

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    16 Oct 08
    5:49 am

    logs all past history for 2 years, omg! thanks for telling us.

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    25 Oct 08
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    12 Nov 08
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