How to Delete Trending Searches on Google
A search engine like Google is always evolving. There are many innovations that the Mountain View giant brings to its main product, Search, every year, but they are not always welcomed positively by users, or at least by some of them.
A concrete example are trending searches , which appear automatically as soon as you open the Google app or connect to google.it via any Internet browser from mobile devices.
If you too are among those who want to disable this feature, you will be happy to know that in this article you will find a short but comprehensive guide on how to eliminate trending searches on Google .
Delete trending Google searches from the Google app
To disable trending searches on Google from the app of the same name, open the Google application from your smartphone, tap on your profile picture at the top right, select the “Settings” tab ,
then go to “More settings” , in the new screen tap on “Autocomplete settings”
in the new screen that opens, deactivate the button next to the item “Autocomplete with trending searches” .
Once finished, you can exit the app.
Now you can verify that the operation was successful. Open the Google app again and press “Search” to start a new search: from this moment on you should no longer see the box relating to trending searches but only the section regarding your latest searches.
If you ever change your mind, you can always restore Google trending searches from the Google app by following the same steps above, but in this case re-enabling the button next to “Autocomplete with trending searches” .
Delete Trending Google Searches From a Mobile Browser
To remove trending searches on Google from a mobile Internet browser, such as Chrome or Safari, first open the browser, go to google.com , then tap the Menu icon (three dots) on the right at the top of the list of trending results and tap “Settings” .
In the new screen that opens, tap on the “More settings” section and under the “Cellular” tab , deactivate the button located next to the “Autocomplete with trending searches” item . The changes are saved automatically, you don’t need to do anything else.
Once the procedure is completed, open your Internet browser again and connect to the google.com home page: if the previous operation was successful, from now on you will no longer see the trending searches automatically inserted by Google for its users.
Delete Google Trending Searches on iPhone
If you have an iPhone and use Safari as your primary browser, you may still receive suggestions from both your default search engine (see Google) and Safari itself.
That’s why it’s important to take an extra step to completely eliminate trending searches. First, open the Settings app , then select the “Safari” tab and turn off the toggles next to “Search Engine Suggestions” and “Safari Suggestions . ”
Delete Trending Google Searches From PC
The process for deleting trending searches on Google from a PC is a little different than using the Google app and mobile browsers, but it’s still easy to do.
All you have to do is:
- launch Google Chromebrowser and go to com ;
- click on “Settings”in the lower right corner of the screen;
- select “Search Settings”from the menu that opens;
- click on “More settings”;
- under the “Desktop”tab , disable the button next to “Autocomplete with trending searches” .
What are trending searches on Google
Google’s Trending Searches feature shows the topics that users have been searching for the most over the past few hours .
For example, suppose that a volcanic eruption occurs in Iceland, or that there are presidential elections in the United States, or that a new war breaks out: the events just described can be labeled as particularly “relevant”, and consequently they will influence user searches in a certain period of time and, more generally, over the course of a day.
All this makes them fall into the trending searches on Google.
To provide the most accurate overview possible, Big G analyzes not only the data coming from its own search engine but also what happens on social media , websites , newspapers and blogs . Furthermore, in order to improve trending searches , Google uses the history of any topic “typed” by users.
For this reason, if you intend to disable trending searches, you may also want to consider deleting your Google history (if you are an Apple user, we invite you to read the guide on how to delete Google history on iPhone, iPad and Mac ).
Conclusion
As we have seen, deleting trending searches on Google requires a few simple steps. If you are a privacy-conscious person , you will most likely not be satisfied with disabling a simple function, but will want to go further.