Google Records Web History

Last Review: August 14, 2010
Product(s): Google Gmail

If you have a Google Account, you may not know that Google records your web history:

  • Web History records information about the web pages you visit and your activity on Google, including your search queries, the results you click on, and the date and time of your searches in order to improve your search experience and display your web activity. Over time, the service may also use additional information about your activity on Google or other information you provide us in order to deliver a more personalized experience.

  • You can choose to terminate your account and stop web history storage, as described in Web History Help.

  • You can delete information from Web History using the remove feature, and it will be removed from the service. However, as is common practice in the industry, and as outlined in the Google Privacy Policy, Google maintains a separate logs system for auditing purposes and to help us improve the quality of our services for users.

See the the Google Web History Privacy Notice for more information.

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