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For a lot of people with privacy concerns, their number one concern is that the search engines and browsers store and keep track of their online activity. You can take steps to ensure that the search engines don’t keep track of your online activity. The instructions shown below are for clearing and/or disabling your search history in the mostcommon browsers such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Netscape Navigator.

Microsoft Internet Explorer

1. Go to the “Tools” menu.
2. Select “Internet Options” and the “General” tab.
3. Click the “Clear History” button. To completely disable the history function, set “Days to keep pages in history” to zero (”0″).
4. Click “OK” to exit.

Mozilla Firefox

1. Go to the “Tools” menu.
2. Select “Options” > “Privacy” > “History.”
3. Click on “Clear.” To completely disable the history function, set “Remember visited pages for the last X days” to zero (”0″).
4. Click “OK” to exit.

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CLEARING YOUR GOOGLE SEARCH BOX HISTORY

The search history that displays in the search box on the Google homepage is stored by your browser, not by Google. The Instructions shown below is for disabling this search history in common browsers. The browsers for which the instructions are shown include the Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple’s Safari and Netscape Navigator 8.0

Microsoft Internet Explorer

1. Go to the “Tools” menu.
2. Select “Internet Options” and the “Content” tab.
3. Within the “Personal information” area, select “AutoComplete.”
4. Click on “Clear Forms.” You can also un-check the “Forms” box in this window to keep this information from being stored in the future.
5. Click “OK” to exit.

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