How do I delete the search history from my google searches?  I've
turned off "autocomplete" in internet options and this didn't work
(even after I re-booted)

gtx...

Try this alternative method, which I find preferable anyway,
since deleting the forms history clears much more than your
Google search history, including all your stored usernames
and passwords, which I'd prefer to keep intact.


Go to Google or any other search site you use. When you
left-click once or twice in the empty search box, a list
of previous searches appears, complete with scroll bar.

Now, you can highlight the very first entry with your 
cursor. If you want to delete only that entry, or any
other entry you highlight, just click on the Delete
key on your keyboard (not the backspace key, which you
might use to delete a letter or two in a word, but the
Delete key).

If you want to delete all the entries quickly, you can
just highlight the very first one, and then hold the 
Delete key down, instead of releasing it after it 
deletes one entry. This will rapidly scroll down
through the entire list, deleting as it goes.

If you want to be more selective, you can use the scroll
bar (easier to navigate) or move the cursor to the bottom
of the list to scroll to lower entries. Yet another way to
navigate the list is to leave the cursor in the search box
when the list appears. Then use the Up and Down scroll keys
on your keyboard to navigate through the list. Then just 
select the specific entries you want to remove, and tap on
the Delete key to remove them.

You can use this same method to erase selected items from
any form you encounter that generates a drop-down box of
possible entries. Just highlight the ones you want to delete,
and click on the Delete key.


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Request for Answer Clarification by gtx-ga on 12 Sep 2005 20:06 PDT

thanks for your assistance but I tried that too and it still didnt
work.  I used the delete key after highlighting the previously
requested searches.  I"m using Netscape 8.0 right now but could
download Internet Exployer and just use their browser from here on out
and that would probably solve the problem, right?

I'll be going out of town shortly so if you don't hear back from me
right away I'll try to respond before the 30 day cutoff.

thanks

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Clarification of Answer by sublime1-ga on 12 Sep 2005 21:14 PDT

gtx...

Using Internet Explorer would do the trick. That's the browser
that this trick works with (as well as any browser which sits
on top of IE, such as MyIE2, now Maxthon).

I was surprised to hear you're using Netscape, as I didn't
know it had "internet options" and autocomplete. I also use
Mozilla and, since it's based on the Netscape browser and
has no autocomplete and does not store Google's search 
history, I'd assumed that Netscape was the same.

So that would be another option for you. If you don't want
to store the Google search history, just use the Mozilla
browser. The latest version of Mozilla is Firefox, and I
haven't tried it, so I don't know if they've now added
the ability for Firefox to save Google's search history,
but you can always get an older version of Mozilla, which
doesn't do so. Mozilla 1.6 is a good, stable version.

sublime1-ga

2 ways to do this: change rendering engine from firefox to ie if you
have internet explorer. Or highlight with mouse, dont click just
highlight first search and then click shift ctrl keys then delete key.
everything should be erase.  Hope I help.