New Delhi: For those online researchers and casual surfers who always want to go back to what exactly they studied or read on the web but forgot to bookmark, Google has introduced a download feature for search history.
The feature was mentioned by the search giant last year and now is available to everyone. You simply need to go to Google Web history and click on the gear icon and hit on 'download' to get all of your search history in a ZIP archive.
Google prompts a disclaimer warning that "it is not the usual yada yada" and asks you to read the information carefully.
An unofficial Google system blogspot notes that the pre-download dialogue suggests users to enable 2-step verification and informs them that the archive includes sensitive data.
The backup of Google search history can be accessed from anywhere and a copy of that history is also saved securely to the Takeout folder in Google Drive. You also have the option of downloading the files to your computer if needed.
An email will be sent when the archive is ready to download. You'll receive a ZIP archive with .json extension files.
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