How to Find What Google Knows About You

You can view what Google knows and erase only the things that you don't want Google to consider when serving up your ads. Here's an example. What if someone mentioned a Justin Bieber song and you Google it.

Hey, you don't even like Justin Beiber, but now the banner ads in half your favorite websites are showing nothing but Justin Bieber. Erase it!

First step: log into your Google account and go to history.google.com 

You should see something pretty similar to the screen capture I made of my history. No Justin Bieber here, but I did search for demotivational posters. Maybe I want to delete those.

Delete It from Google!

Once you review your Google history, you can remove anything you don't want to sit around in your Google history causing embarrassing ads or new and exciting discoveries for your children to accidentally find in your search history.

Just check the box to the left of the item and then click on the remove button.

You could do the same thing by clearing your browser history and cookies, but that only works on the computer you're using.

Clearing it from your Google history works for searches from any computer where you were logged into your Google account.

But wait, there's more. You can go beyond just deleting your history. You can actually download it, too.

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Download Your History

 If you'd like, you can download your Google history. Click on the settings icon and then click download. You'll get a gigantic warning.

Download a copy of your data

Please read this carefully, it's not the usual yada yada.

Create an archive of your search history data. This archive will only be accessible to you. We will email you when the archive is ready to download from Google Drive. Learn more

Important information about your Google data archives

• Do not download your archive on public computers and ensure your archive is always under your control; your archive contains sensitive data.


• Protect your account and sensitive data with 2-Step Verification; helping keep bad guys out, even if they have your password.


• If you have decided to take your data elsewhere, please research the data export policies of your destination. Otherwise, if you ever want to leave the service, you may have to leave your data behind.

Why such the big warning? Well, Google can make inferences about your gender, age, and shopping preferences, and so can anyone else with that data. If you've ever visited an embarrassing website or Googled something that could potentially be used against you, you may want to think carefully about how you store this data.

NB: Please Comment below if you have more question.