How do I delete items I've been to using Google?

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Summary: Follow these steps to delete your browser's history.

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That question could mean a couple of things: the history of web sites you've visited, or perhaps the responses that auto-fill shows you as you type in your next Google search. The "trick" is that neither has anything to do with Google at all. But both have everything to do with your browser.

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If you just want to delete the list of sites you've visited, whether you found them via Google or got to them some other way, you need to clear your browser's history and cache. In Internet Explorer:

• Click on the Tools menu
• Click on Internet Options...
• Click on the General tab, if it's not already showing
• In the Temporary Internet files section, click on Delete Files...
• Make sure Delete all offline content is checked
• Press OK
• In the History section, click on Clear History, and answer Yes to the confirmation.
• OK your way back out.

If what concerns you is the list of previous search terms that start to show as you type in a new search term for Google, that's just your browser's AutoComplete feature at work. It works on most web forms, and the Google search page is just one of those forms. To delete the contents of the AutoComplete list in Internet Explorer:

• Click on the Tools menu
• Click on Internet Options...
• Click on the Content tab
• In the Personal information section, click on the AutoComplete button
• Click on the Clear Forms button, and answer Yes to the resulting confirmation

Your Google AutoComplete history, as well as the AutoComplete history for any other web forms is now erased.

Article C2360 - May 29, 2005

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