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How to keep your search history private if you use Google search & Gmail?

Tuesday, August 22, 2006 1:08:22 PM

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When you use google.com search and Gmail, your searches can be associated with your gmail account because when you use Gmail, cookies will be stored for google.com and mail.google.com. To keep your search history private, use local Google (example: google.co.in) as your search engine & block cookies for it.

See How To Keep Your Search History Private for more tips.

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Unregistered user Saturday, November 25, 2006 11:55:37 AM

Anonymous writes: great

Unregistered user Wednesday, May 2, 2007 9:32:39 AM

Anonymous writes: Or clear your cookies after either if you live in a place where the local authorities are more than interested in what people do, can, or cannot search for!

Unregistered user Saturday, September 29, 2007 4:42:26 AM

Anonymous writes: There is a search page that you can use that strips your header and certain aspects of cookie/var info and then searches google but I cannot remember the URL. Sorry, I'm a tard. At least you know it's out there

Unregistered user Saturday, May 1, 2010 12:00:43 AM

Rob writes: Nice tip! Running Gmail/Calendar/Reader without being signed into search was annoying and making me use Bing.

Unregistered user Friday, May 14, 2010 7:04:48 AM

j writes: strip it : http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm

Alexanderelations Tuesday, June 1, 2010 7:15:24 PM

If one wanted to be even more secure and private, one might want to use the secure version of this service: https://ssl.scroogle.org/
Or, the URL to create a new search directly:
https://ssl.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbwssl.cgi?Gw=%s

Another cookie-free alternative but doesn't use Google is the meta-search engine startpage.com = ixquick.com. It allows SSL and various customizations. The settings page can then generate a custom URL that incorporates the selected settings without the need for any cookie whatsoever. The results are presented as the usual links but there's also a "Proxy" link which allows to use a proxy to access the respective result, for an additional level of privacy/ecurity.

Alexanderelations Tuesday, June 1, 2010 7:18:44 PM

This video explains the proxy feature:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv3SCbI5KFM

Unregistered user Friday, November 25, 2011 4:09:59 PM

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