How to stop IE8 from saving history of searches done?

[Morbius]

While I like the built-in search bat at the top-right of IE8 (set to Google

on my machine), I don't like that fact that it saves a history of the

searches I performed. I know it does this because as I type in a search

similar to one I've previously done, I see a list of the searches I typed in

earlier that are close. Note that these are not the "suggestions" you can

turn on and off in the search bar...I've already disabled that. But what it

does is remember every search I've previously typed, and attempts to match it

with one of those. For instance, yesterday I searched on

"Racqueballonline.tv". Today, when I started to type in "racquetball" as a

search, it brought up a list showing yesterday's "Racquetballonline.tv"

search as well as a search I did last week for "racquetball gear". I

remember when I had IE7, there was a setting to specifically disable this

saving of previous searches, but I find no such setting in IE8?!? Am I

overlooking this somewhere, or has MS simply made it impossible to keep your

searches from being saved?? If so, I guess I'll have to use another search

method, as I hate this!

 

[Jeff Strickland]

I have never ever searched for or been to racquetballonline.tv, and this

comes up as a search suggestion as I type. It's not a result of visiting the

site, or a previous search, because I have never been there nor done a

search.



The search history could be problematic, especially at work, but what you

report isn't a result of the history. I set my browser to delete all history

at the close of each session. Check the settings of TOOLS>OPTIONS>Browsing

History.









"Morbius" wrote in message

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> While I like the built-in search bat at the top-right of IE8 (set to

> Google

> on my machine), I don't like that fact that it saves a history of the

> searches I performed. I know it does this because as I type in a search

> similar to one I've previously done, I see a list of the searches I typed

> in

> earlier that are close. Note that these are not the "suggestions" you can

> turn on and off in the search bar...I've already disabled that. But what

> it

> does is remember every search I've previously typed, and attempts to match

> it

> with one of those. For instance, yesterday I searched on

> "Racqueballonline.tv". Today, when I started to type in "racquetball" as

> a

> search, it brought up a list showing yesterday's "Racquetballonline.tv"

> search as well as a search I did last week for "racquetball gear". I

> remember when I had IE7, there was a setting to specifically disable this

> saving of previous searches, but I find no such setting in IE8?!? Am I

> overlooking this somewhere, or has MS simply made it impossible to keep

> your

> searches from being saved?? If so, I guess I'll have to use another

> search

> method, as I hate this!