Google says deleting the data will mean less effective and speedier searches. Select your date, hit enter and watch it all go away. You pick a date (today, this week, this month, all time) and the category (say, Google Chrome.) So if Google is holding onto your data, even when you think it's not, here's a tip: Delete it.įrom there, Google lets you choose what to delete. We reached out to Google for comment, but have yet to hear back. That last bit of history was a surprise. Google tells users that searching in Incognito mode means "Chrome doesn't save your browsing history" and "basic browsing history information like URLs, cached page text, or IP addresses of pages linked from the websites you visit." 1 video site YouTube) mean that it may be keeping more on you than you may realize. But the varied nature of Google's apps and products (which also include No. Many of us started using Google before Facebook, and thanks to wildly popular services such as Google Maps and Waze, Google can keep tabs on our every move.
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This is the time many of us are taking a harder look at our Facebook data, spurred by a reminder that we've allowed the social network incredible access to our preferences, thoughts, movements and friends.īut Google tracks even more of our lives, as more people use Google for many other parts of their days - including email, calendar, Web browsing and the Android mobile operating system, which has an 85% market share of smartphones, according to market tracker IDC. Curious to see how much a sprawling Internet company knows about your likes, history and movements? Download your Google data.