Summary: Follow these steps to delete your browser's history.
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How can I delete items I have been to on Google? |
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.
Related:
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How do I delete history items from my Google tool bar? Deleting Google history takes a few steps, depending on what Google history you mean. Here are step-by-step instructions for deleting Google history.
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How do I delete items from Internet Explorer's auto-complete list? Internet Explorer tries to be helpful by showing you recently visited URLs so you don't have to retype them. But what if you don't want them to show?
Article C2360 - May 29, 2005
I even design games but when i needed to delete my google auto-complete i really didnt know what to do. My boss was coming round for inspection to make sure we dont play games (which i do) so i quickly searched google and found this. Thanks you just saved me from losin my job :)
Posted by: Tidenburg at December 14, 2005 1:11 PMIs there a way to delete search itmes on google?
Posted by: Daryl at December 21, 2005 10:52 PMIn other words, if I type in my name and newspaper articles come up on me. I don't want them to.
As far as I know, only if you are the owner of the website that contains the newspaper articles.
Posted by: Leo at December 21, 2005 10:54 PMIs there a way to delete search itmes on google?
Posted by: dana at February 3, 2006 9:57 PMIn other words, if I type in my name and newspaper articles come up on me. i don't want anybody to see that article. how can i delete it?
That's this article: http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_remove_myself_from_the_search_engines.html
In short: no, not really.
Posted by: Leo at February 4, 2006 10:42 AMPeople are asking about Mozilla Firefox deletion. I figured it out. Go to tools then options (at the bottem). Click on options and a thing will come up. On the side bar of the pop-up thing, click privacy. The there is a link that says saved imformation or something along those general lines. Click that and it will pop-up with a thing that has a box that says something like: "Save information from searches, etc., etc." Unmark the box and click okay at the bottem. Not clear which is next to it. This should work.
Posted by: Online. at June 27, 2006 11:46 PMMac People....Go to google.com (for example) .. in the search area click on it and scroll down to highlight a previous search but dont click on it, then click shift and delete. You can delete them one by one.
Posted by: Stacy at November 1, 2007 8:33 AMjust DL the Google toolbar and when you go to the scrolldown page just go all the way to the bottom and select "Clear search history".
Posted by: La-Trace at January 23, 2008 6:47 PMunfortunately this doesn't work with addresses entered into the Google Maps "Get Directions" text boxes. If you clear the web form and log out then your previsouly searched for addresses don't show in when you begin typing in a new address for directions.
However, if you log back into your Google account that history does show up and as soon as you start to type in a new address for directions any address you have searched for previously will show up.
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