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    Remove Google Search History Before the New Policy Starts


    Last Updated: 24 Feb 2012 at 12:39
    On March 1st, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1st as well as data it collects on you in the future. Until now, your Google Web History (your Google searches and sites visited) was cordoned off from Google's other products. This protection was especially important because search data can reveal particularly sensitive information about you, including facts about your location, interests, age, sexual orientation, religion, health concerns, and more. If you want to keep Google from combining your Web History with the data they have gathered about you in their other products, such as YouTube or Google Plus, you may want to remove all items from your Web History and stop your Web History from being recorded in the future.
    Read more here:
    https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/0...y-takes-effect
    Roderunner's Avatar Posted By: Roderunner
    24 Feb 2012



  1. Posts : 291
    Vista/Windows 7
       #1

    I turned off my web history a long time ago after stumbling across it by accident and was shocked too see everything I had been looking it...I also found it a little creepy.
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  2. Posts : 6,879
    Win 7 Ultimate x64
       #2

    Nice to see that this is one of those little things I don't have to worry about as I refuse to have anything to do with anything Google (gmail, Chrome, or any other Google app) other than as a search engine.
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  3. Posts : 960
    Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 - 64 Bit
       #3

    The shocking thing is it shares the history even if you are not logged in (for example, if someone used my router on a different PC and google account it will show up in mine.
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  4. Posts : 10,455
    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Service Pack 1
       #4

    I too discovered this about a year ago cleared it and turned it off a year ago. I check from time to time just in case Google decides to turn it back on.
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  5. Posts : 1,275
    Windows 7 Home Premium
       #5

    Mine was off too, which is good.
    I wasn't really worried about what's in my history, but it's just one of them "feels better this way" things.
    Last edited by MWRed; 03 Mar 2012 at 20:24. Reason: .....I type like crap
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  6. Posts : 12,364
    8 Pro x64
       #6

    My last google history search was Oct 30 2011. I'm not sure which 'go away google trick' I used since then

    But at least it appeared to have worked :)


    stormy13 said:
    Nice to see that this is one of those little things I don't have to worry about as I refuse to have anything to do with anything Google (gmail, Chrome, or any other Google app) other than as a search engine.
    I refuse to even use the search engine any more. DuckDuckGo.com with Bing as a fallback works well for me.
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  7. Posts : 3,612
    Operating System : Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 6.01.7600 SP1 (x64)
       #7

    hi all i found this information from Google which was helpful for me

    Me on the Web

    The Me on the Web section in your Google Dashboard can help you understand and manage what people see when they search for you on Google.

    With Me on the Web, you can:

    Get notified when your personal data appears on the web
    You can use Me on the Web to alert you when your personal information--say, your email address or phone number--gets published online.

    To create alerts:

    Sign in to your Google Dashboard. http://goo.gl/2vUI
    In the 'Me on the Web' section, click Set up search alerts for your data.
    Select the checkboxes beside the alerts (such as your name or email address) you'd like to receive.
    (Optional) Enter additional information (such as a home address) in the text field, then select the checkbox for that alert.
    (Optional) Click Add another alert to create alerts for additional personal information.
    In the 'How often' drop-down box, choose the alert frequency.
    In the 'Deliver to' drop-down box, choose which email address your alerts should be sent to.
    Click Save alert preferences.
    To see information about you that already exists on the web, click View results beside the appropriate personal data.

    Remove unwanted content
    If you find content online--say, your telephone number or an embarrassing photo of you--that you don't want to appear publicly, click the "How to remove unwanted content" link on your Google Dashboard http://goo.gl/2vUI for tips on removing content from Google's search results.
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    Last edited by brianzion; 04 Mar 2012 at 04:44. Reason: update information
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