Perhaps you’ve noticed that Google has been quietly associating your account with your search history. Perhaps this pisses you off. Well, Ex-Googler Nelson Minar has some tips for deleting and turning off the search history feature, should that appeal to you.

You can turn off search history recording in the settings page. You can also edit your history, including removing it entirely.

—MEGHANN MARCO

Google search history and privacy [Some Bits via BoingBoing]

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