Clear Google Search History

Have you ever noticed how Google or any search engine's box shows certain past searches you might have typed earlier? It may get some people into trouble and some may even thank it! It is actually your Internet browser which is keeping a record of the past searches you carried out. You may want to delete Google search history from time to time, if you want to keep your past searches a secret from the inquisitive minds around you. For example, if an unmarried girl is searching for pregnancy symptoms from her home computer, she might want to keep her search away from her parents and other family members. This is where the need to clear Google search history arises. But before jumping to the steps on how to clear Google search history, let me first explain few basics of Google search history.

Google history is a record of all the previous Google web searches that have been performed from your computer. Accessing Google web history is very simple, and so is clearing Google history! Here's how to access Google history. If you have Internet explorer or Mozilla Firefox as your default web browsers, when you go to Google and start typing your required search in the Google's search box, you will get a "drop down" box. This box will display a list of all the words you searched for in the past, in the Google search box. This means that when you start typing a word in Google's search box, you will be shown a list of similar keywords that contain first letters of what you have typed, that you searched for in the past. You may want to read on how to view Internet history.

How to Clear Google Search History - Firefox
Clearing Google search history is very simple in Mozilla Firefox. Here's a step-by-step process on how to clear Google search history in Firefox.

1. Go to Firefox Tools menu. Click it or press Alt+t on your keyboard to get the tools menu.
2. Choose clear recent history by clicking it.
3. Click the drop down next to time range to delete and choose how much of your web history you want to clear. (For example: last hour, last two hours, etc.)
4. Click the drop down next to "Details".
5. In that, you should select "Browsing and downloading History" and "Form and Search History" check boxes.
6. Lastly, click on "Clear Now".

How to Clear Google Search History - IE (Internet Explorer)
Using Internet Explorer, we can clear Google search history very quickly and easily.

1. Press Ctrl+Shift+Del on your keyboard.
2. Select the "history" and "Form Data" check boxes and then click on "delete".

How to Clear Google Search History - Safari
For all those who work on Safari Internet browser by Apple, there are two procedures to clear Google search history. Here's how to do it. If you want to Reset Safari, follow the following options. But before that, let me tell you that, reset option will not just delete your Google history, it will erase all your cookies, cache, history, autofills, usernames and passwords. Here are the steps.

1. Go to the Safari menu.
2. Click on "Safari".
3. Select and click "Reset Safari".

Another method in Safari, that focuses on clearing only the Google history is, as follows.

1. Go to the Safari menu.
2. Select and click "Preferences".
3. Select the "Autofill" option.
4. Then, click the "Edit" button from the "Other Forms" line.
5. Select Google.com from the Autofill list of websites.
6. Select "Remove" and click on "Done".

The Google toolbar is not currently available in Firefox although there is a small Googlebar on the right top corner of a Firefox window which provides the same function. This Googlebar also saves the search history. To disable Googlebar's search history, follow the following steps.

1. Click on the logo of Googlebar on left side of the bar.
2. Select the "Googlebar Options".
3. Choose the Miscellaneous tab.
4. You will find a "Save history" option, in which, you should uncheck the "Preserve the search history across the browser sessions" option. This is how you "Disable" the Googlebar from saving the search history.

If you want to simply clear the Google history on the Googlebar, right-click the Google bar logo and select the "Clear Search History" option.

Now, here's a catch. What if you want to delete a single search word from the Google search history? The solution: Try using the arrow keys on the keyboard of your computer to highlight a specific entry that you want to remove. Or, you can highlight that specific entry using the mouse without clicking it. Once the entry has been highlighted, press the "delete" button on your keyboard. The entry should get deleted after doing so.

Hope I have been able to provide information on how to clear Google search history, for your Internet browser. These steps are very easy and yes, they work! So, follow these steps carefully and maintain the chronology. Can clearing Google search history get any simpler?