Google Web History

[Indizine]

Just a quickie relating to other conversations on threads about being logged in to your Google account whilst using their search engine and you getting 'different' results.

If you are logged in to your Google Account, and have selected to use the Web History application (you might not realise or remember you have selected this!) it will give you results based on your previous search history, thus when you see yourself or other websites ranking higher in the search engines then go on another computer or ask someone else to tell you where they see you ranking in Google for a particular phrase, you will often see different results.

You should find a link at the bottom of the Google search page called 'web history'. Click on that and on the next page, click on 'manage web history'. Here you can pause or delete the application so that you get totally natural search results every time you search, with the results not based on previous searches thus you see what Jo Public sees and not hat Google thinks you want to see.

Note: You need to delete the feature altogether though, because it will still keep giving you results based on the previous searches you have done previously which it has now stored. So either you can keep deleting the entries and pause it, but thats seems pointless, so you might as well just get rid of the feature altogether and hit delete.

Don't forget, Web History only works when you are logged in to your own Google Account, so the alternative is you can log out, but that's a pain in butt.

[AWTS]

Nice one!

Thanks for the info...

[ks196]

Thanks for that, I didnt realise.
Kath

[Indizine]

Ive updated the original post to remind you that either you need to delete all the previous search entries it has stored otherwise it will keep on producing search results based on those stored entries even though you have paused it. Better to just dfelete Web History from your Google account altogether.