How to Delete Your Search Engine History (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo) – 2025 Guide

Tired of your search engine remembering everything you’ve ever typed?
This post shows you how to permanently delete your search history — not just in your browser, but from the search engines themselves.

If you’ve ever searched “how to delete my search history,” congratulations — you’re in the right place. This is Post #2 of our 5-part series on reclaiming your digital footprint.

🌐 Wait… What’s the Difference Between Browser & Search Engine History?

Let’s make this easy.

So:
✅ You cleared your browser — but your Google account might still know everything you’ve searched for… even years ago.
Let’s delete it, for real.

🧼 Google: How to Delete Search History

Google stores your search history at myactivity.google.com — if you’re logged in, they’re tracking everything. Here's how to wipe it:

💻 On Desktop

Go to https://myactivity.google.com/, there are two obvious entries:

Click Delete > Choose a time range (on your choice):

• 🔘 Last hour
• 🔘 Last day
• 🔘 All time
• 🔘 Custom range ✅

Then, make sure you select Chrome, Discover, Google Lens, Image Search, Search, or any other you want.

Confirm, and Delete

📱 On Mobile (Google App)

1. Open the Google App
2. Tap your profile picture > Search history
3. Tap Delete > Pick time range (on your choice)
4. Choose activity to delete, you may notice there're less products to select, especially Chrome.
5. Confirm and Done.

💡 Pro Tip:
Since that Chrome is the more important search entry, I strongly recommend that you visit https://myactivity.google.com/ directly with Chrome from your mobile phone, just process like the desktop version described above.

🔍 Bing: How to Delete Bing Search History

Yes, people still use Bing — and it stores search history if you're logged into a Microsoft account.

💻 On Desktop or Mobile

1. Visit https://www.bing.com/profile/history
2. Click Clear all next to “Search History”
3. Confirm, and Done.

📸

🦆 DuckDuckGo: Wait… Do I Even Have a History?

Good news if you’re privacy-paranoid:
DuckDuckGo doesn’t store your search history on their servers.🔥

But your device might still store it locally — especially in the browser.

🛡 Bonus: Set Up Auto-Delete (Google)

If you're a regular Google search user, turn on auto-deletion:

1. Go to Google My Activity
2. Click Web & App Activity
3. Tap Auto-delete
4. Choose: Delete activity older than → ✅ 3/18/36 months

⚡ TL;DR

✋ Final Words

This post is part of a complete search-history series from howtodelete.it.com — your go-to resource for clearing the junk you didn’t know was following you.

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Next up:
📱 How to Delete Search Logs from Apps like YouTube, Instagram, TikTok