How to Use Google Search History
Posted on 03. Aug, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey in Tips, Tutorials
In another instance where being in the cloud becomes useful, Google has announced on their Mobile Blog the ability to track down previous search queries, no matter where you are. If you searched for something on your PC and want to quickly access it from your smartphone, you’ll now have the ability to do so by clicking on the “History” link at the bottom of Google Mobile Search.
On your phone, you’ll need to enable this by going to Settings at the top, then selecting Save Searches under Search History, then saving your settings.
Curiously enough, doing this on your PC is a bit more difficult, as I had to click around a bit to figure out how to do this. Maybe they make it easier on mobile for convenience, but those thinking ahead would probably want to set this up on their PC beforehand. Or perhaps I’m just dense.
Head over to Search Settings from a main Google window such as the search page.
Scroll down a bit on the Search Settings page until you reach Query Suggestions and then click on Web History.
You have the option here to Enable Web History or to just limit it to searches, if you don’t use the Google Toolbar you’re probably better off just limiting it.
That’s all you have to do. When you look at your history when you are mobile, you’ll see icons denoting whether you accessed a certain query at your PC or via mobile, also a helpful feature to have.
