How to delete web pages searched from Google homepage

17 years ago

Google's homepage tracks the web pages I have searched. The history of these pages appears in alphabetical order whenver I enter a similar alphabetical term. Deleting history on my browser has no effect on Google. How do I clear it?

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shboom
17 years ago
It's actually the web browser you are using that is keeping track and not Google itself. I keep some of the web pages I have searched and just highlite and delete those I don't want. Just hover over those and click delete. To delete all of the entries assuming you are using IE7 do the following....
Click the Tools menu
Select Delete Browsing History
Click the Delete forms button
Click the Yes button in the confirmation window.
Click the Close button

You can also click on Preferences next to the Google search box and near the bottom where it says Query Suggestion put a check in the button that says... Do not provide query suggestions in the search box. That will stop the auto suggestion when a similar letter is entered.

Bob
Bob_B
Original Author
17 years ago
Excellent explanation to the solution of my problem. Thanks.

RB
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