You probably use Google to search the Internet. Did you know that Google, and your browser, maintain a history of your Internet activities? In this article, we will take a look at why you want to remove this history and how to do it.

Most people do not know that their Internet activities are logged. These activities are ostensibly logged for your convenience. For example, if you have visited a page in the past, your browser maintains this information so that you do not need to type the whole website URL again.

Or in other cases, you may have typed something into the Google search box. These searches are maintained by Google to present you with similar searches if you happen to be looking for the same thing in the future. In fact, Google combines your previous searches with their own database to try to provide you with the optimal results.

However, what will happen if someone logs into your computer? Can they see your previous Internet activities?

In many cases, the answer is yes.

The answer is certainly yes if yours is a Windows-based computer which only has one user ID. In situations such as this, it is very easy to see the data used by other people on that computer.

If you do not want this to occur, you will need to take action to delete your Google search history.

There are three places to look to delete your Google history. The first place, and the place that snoopers are likely to first check, is your browser bar where you put in the address of web sites that you visit. This area maintains your search history which can easily be accessed by clicking the drop down box.

In most browsers, to remove your browser history, you will click “tools” and then “options” to find the tab that will allow you to delete your personal history.

Another location in which your history is maintained is in the Google Toolbar. If you have installed the Google Toolbar, your history can be deleted by right-clicking in the search area and clicking “Clear History.”

Finally, the third piece of information that is stored is the information that you have typed into the Google search box. This is maintained by your browser and can usually be deleted on a tab within your browsers “Tools-Options” choice.

In summary, if you do not want others to track your Google search history, make sure that you take the proper steps to delete it.

For more information on this topic, visit the how to delete Google history page, which is part of the how to Google series at ThisIsHowYouDoIt.com, your original home for how to do things.

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