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Hostile

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Every time I do a google search it keeps trak of what I have searched for.
For exemple if I search for the word "apple" every time after I complete the search and type in the letter "a" all the words I've searched in the past beggining the the letter "a" will appear under the search space on Google.

I need to get rid off the ones that are already there and stop it from happening again.

Thanks a bunch,
 
ian

ian

Administrator
Staff member
Are you referring to the google toolbar at the top of your browser?
If so, you just click on the google button, select options, then uncheck the box which says "Drop-down search history"
Not sure whether you are referring to something else though.
 
Fure6

Fure6

New Member
Yea, i have the same problem. haha, there are some still from a year ago. My mom looks up lobsters...and she finds "lesbian sex" under the search bar.
 
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weed

New Member
Hostile said:
Every time I do a google search it keeps trak of what I have searched for.
For exemple if I search for the word "apple" every time after I complete the search and type in the letter "a" all the words I've searched in the past beggining the the letter "a" will appear under the search space on Google.

I need to get rid off the ones that are already there and stop it from happening again.

Thanks a bunch,
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Do wat ian said plus when u press options on your google bar if your using it.. press more and uncheck save the history across broswer sessions..
under IE press tools ---internet options click the content tab click auto complete----click clear forms to clear address on the genrel tabs uncheck forms if its active...plus clearing your history and cookies would be a good idea under internet options click the general tab clear history and delete cookies... or u can do it manually buy searching for the cookies folder which should be located in your c drive...
 
Christopher

Christopher

VIP Member
Fure6 said:
Yea, i have the same problem. haha, there are some still from a year ago. My mom looks up lobsters...and she finds "lesbian sex" under the search bar.
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LOL

That's too funny :D
 
Jimbob1989

Jimbob1989

banned
I've not read all this as I've not got time so I might be wrong but why cant u just go into internet options and delete files, cookies and history. Thats how i would do it.

Jimbob
 
Fure6

Fure6

New Member
Jimbob1989 said:
I've not read all this as I've not got time so I might be wrong but why cant u just go into internet options and delete files, cookies and history. Thats how i would do it.

Jimbob
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nope, doesn't work. if you don't format your hard drive for a long time, you could have stuff from when you first got your computer. i know this becuase it has happened to me. We had a computer for 3-5 years and we never reformatted. my mom found those things that my brosearched after he got over his "stage".
 
Praetor

Praetor

Administrator
Staff member
Well its simple enough to make a program which runs while your on the internet deleting as you go
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If you feel comfortable writing a program that has realtime, threaded deletion rights on your OS drive go for it. The risk of accidentally screwing up is there however and VB isnt the most facilitative language for dealing with that kind of stuff :)
 
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