Comments on: How to turn off personalized search results in Google

By: Audrey

Audrey — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:47:07 +0000

I noticed that new gmail setups, can choose to not enable web history.

I searched google’s help, and can disable web history for current accounts.

http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=54052

By: Usroxx

Usroxx — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:31:53 +0000

Even more horrible, now Google tracks which search results we clicked by using javascript in the link listed in its search results.

It is also annoying when you want to copy the link, what copied is the javascript link.

By: Levi

Levi — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:05:02 +0000

Go to Google Account and Settings, Click on Edit by the My Products, then click on remove Web History.

By: Internet Marketing Blog | Tom Duong

Internet Marketing Blog | Tom Duong — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:17:42 +0000

Thanks for the heads up. I wasn’t aware of this. Something to definitely look into.

-Tom

By: Dejan Petrovic

Dejan Petrovic — Sun, 17 May 2009 13:56:22 +0000

That’s a great tip. Thanks to Mark also for his contribution.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 06:16:50 +0000

Today I ran into the issue and I was pissed because I dont understand why google is messing with my searches. If people would like to use a personalized search then must login to their google account seems a reasonable thing, but without logging into it doesnt make sense.

By: intel352

intel352 — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:08:49 +0000

ihsan, that’s for Browser search bar history, that has nothing to do with “Search Engine” history, as that is data which is stored in the search engine’s database.

By: ihsan

ihsan — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:31:33 +0000

to disable any search engine search history first Go to “Internet Option => Contants => Auto Complete =>Forms” uncheck it and than ok it. than close your web browser and start new. now no history will be save in your search engine. enjoy.

By: j

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:05:44 +0000

looks like you click on “pause” nowadays.

By: akishore

akishore — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 02:55:01 +0000

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the tip, I was not aware of this! Appreciate it!

Aseem

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 18:37:07 +0000

You can turn off personalized search simply by logging into your Google Web Search History and disabling it.

The link to your web search history is in the top right hand corner next to your Gmail address.

Once you disable the search history, Google can’t return personalized results because it has nothing to go on if you have disabled the indexing of your web searches.