How do I delete 'exact phrase' seraches?

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all my Google searches pop up whenever I put anything in quotes. It's not only on Google, either - when I search for something on ILM, after I put the quotation mark, everything I've serched for on Explorer over the past year pops up. Not a huge deal, but I have privacy issues and this computer is shared.

How do I get rid of this?

― Overbite (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 03:18 (twenty years ago)

Click on tools, then options, then contents and Auto complete to clear them. That is what I do and it seems to work. Mind you, I know next to nothing about this bloody machine.

― Paul Kelly (kelly), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure but my guess is that Explorer pops up all previous searches that were done in a field with the same name (in this case "q", the value of ILX's name attribute in its keyword search field - which also happens to be the value of Google's name attribute for its search field.. no doubt it's a common name to call a search field), so you could either ask Andrew to change the name attribute to something unique, or you could.. use Firefox, which is maybe smarter about it somehow?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

help with hard drive and google search Pc question ahhh!

I think it is autocomplete doing the thing with Google. Go to Tools/Options/Content/Autocomplete and clear forms and probably turn them off.

-- Eyeball Kicks (eyeball_kick...), March 16th, 2004.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

thanks paul (and eyeball and teeny), that worked like a charm.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

I thought you wanted to keep your old Google searches.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 03:48 (twenty years ago)

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