Google is the first Internet search engine in the world, almost the only one available in Italy, so powerful and also so intrusive in the life of each of us. It's no mystery that Google stores all people's data, creating profiles based on habits, on the sites visited and on any preference expressed through online searches.
Not all Google users, perhaps, are aware that every search is tracked and browsing data is collected.
There are two ways Google works:
1) By collecting information anonymously, by storing a cookie that, over time, ends up influencing searches by providing personalized ads to the user (see also all the data that Google collects about us )
2) In a conscious way, by accessing your Google account, registering each website you browse in order to be able to review them later which is the thing that interests us here.
While the collection of data for advertising purposes can be unpleasant, the fact that Google can be used as an archive of everything that has been seen on the internet can instead be very useful in any situation.
This happens thanks to the important Google function of the web activity history that allows you to save online, in your account, all the websites visited in the past and also the searches made by any computer or mobile phone used.
To view Google history, go to the //myactivity.google.com/ site and log in with your Google / Gmail account.
From this page you can activate the storage of web history or, if it was already activated, view it.
The Google history of the sites visited and searches can be viewed with a group view or, with an element view which is precisely the history of each site seen and a search made on Google.
The best part of this timeline is that if it had been active for some time, you can search inside it to see if we had already done some research or seen a site in the past.
Using the date and product filter at the top, it is possible to view the history of only a certain moment or relating to a certain type of interest or word.
From the menu on the left Delete activity for it is possible to delete the Google history, remove single elements, delete everything or only the searches made in the last hour, in the last day, in the last week or in the month.
If there are some search results that you want to remove from sites saved by Google, just select them from the main page and click on the remove button from the left menu.
Of course, you can also clear the history of all time, deleting everything.
By pressing on the Task Manager on the left, you can disable the Google history for web activities or one of the other histories that Google keeps separately.
These histories, visible by clicking on " Other Google activity " and are:
- The history of the positions of Google Maps, with all the movements made.
- The history of voice searches on Google using the smartphone.
- The Youtube history, with all the videos searched and viewed.
- Other timelines related to Google Play, words on Gboard, surveys, podcasts and all the Google products used.
On the Google history page, you will see a calendar on the right that connects to all daily activities through the web, including recent Google searches.
This research history can be divided into nine categories: images, products, blogs, news, videos, books, sponsored links and maps.
By clicking on the "trends" button it is possible to view, after a certain period, what the words a person has searched for several times, how many searches have been made during each month of the year, on which day of the week you are most active on internet, at what times of the day and which sites were the most clicked.
Why this chronology is useful and why it is better to use it "> save favorite web pages, sites, news and articles to read them later.
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