Viewing and deleting the history of search queries in Yandex

Updated January 21, 2022 624 Author: Dmitry Petrov
Hello, dear readers of the KtoNaNovenkogo.ru blog. When you surf the Internet, you use two mandatory tools for this task - a browser and a search engine (in RuNet this is most often Yandex).

Both of them are able to maintain and store the history of your visits, page views and search queries that you entered. If necessary, you can restore the chronology of events and find the page that you opened yesterday, or the query that you entered into Yandex search six months ago. It is very comfortable.

But often the opposite situation arises, when you need to erase all traces of your activity on the network. In this case, you have a question: how to delete history in Yandex ? How to “clean up after yourself” in your browser? How to find and remove all other traces?

Today I just want to draw your attention to this topic. We will talk about both cleaning your searches and deleting all traces of your online activities in your browser (including the Yandex browser).

What is the history of requests and visits in Yandex

The viewing of any page in the browser is recorded and a record of this action is added to a special program storage on the computer’s hard drive. Thanks to this, you can view your Yandex search history and visited sites at any time. Data is saved both for the mobile version of the browser on the phone and on the computer.

Thanks to this, in the search results for the search query, the sites you visited are highlighted in a different color. See example below:

You can view history in Yandex in two ways:

• find it in a special section of your browser settings;
• Using another program, open a history file that is stored on your computer.

Note! That browsing and query history data is not protected by passwords and is not stored in encrypted form. Anyone who has access to your computer or phone can view them.

Now let's look at what a list of search queries is. In simple terms, this is a set of words and phrases that you entered into the search bar to find the answer to a particular question that interests you.

Here is an example in the picture:

As you can see, phrases that have already been searched are highlighted in purple, and the search engine also offers hints for the search query that other users are looking for information on.

View and delete in a search engine

Since Yandex stores all user activity data, the “My Finds” service was created to store a large number of requests.

With its help, everyone who is registered and authorized can find out everything they need in a few clicks.

To view a list of your visited pages, follow the instructions:

• Go to the official page and log in to the account whose data you want to view. Enter your login and password in the form shown in the figure or log in using social networks VK, Facebook, Twitter;

• As a result, a window will appear indicating the user login and current account in Yandex.Money;

• Since the history is tied only to your account, it makes no difference which browser they were read from. All data will be saved in the “My Finds” service. Click on the gear icon in the main window or in the incoming mail display tab;
• Click on the “Other” item to go to a new one, which will display all services and options;

• Next, find two items - “My Finds” and “Search Settings”. They are at the very bottom of the page;

Finding Display Options

• Click on the item “Search results settings” and in the window that opens, check whether the checkboxes for accounting are checked. Also, the “Record history” button must be pressed. If such data is not configured, the information cannot be restored, and detailed information about views can only be viewed in the browser;
• In the settings, find the key to go to “My Finds” and click on it;

• Once in “Finds”, you will be able to see everything that has been read from your account.

Service "My Finds"

The page with all requests is a powerful tool for analyzing user activity.

You will be able to see not only the search options, which are conveniently divided by date, but also jump back to the results. You just need to click on it.

Users can export information from other devices, work with image search information, blogs, and view not only them, but also the sites they visit.

All this is possible thanks to the settings tab on the left side of the window.

How to open a story in Yandex

Now we will see where the Yandex browser history is located and how to open it for viewing. There are 3 options to go to the browser storage:

1. To view the history on your computer in Yandex, press the key combination on your keyboard Ctrl + H. These are the so-called access hot keys.
2. The second way is the menu. Click on the icon in the form of 3 horizontal stripes (located at the top right), in the menu that opens, move the mouse cursor over the “History” item and in the next menu, left-click on the item of the same name.

3. The third is to click on this link browser://history.

Note! If you have data synchronization enabled, the list is additionally copied to the Yandex cloud. In this case, you can view the history from all devices that are synchronized with each other. These can be both PCs and mobile gadgets.

Here you can see the history by time of day and by all days:

If you often need to clear your Yandex search history, remember the hotkey combination for Ctrl + H for quick access.

To clear your browsing history, click on the link under Clear History. To selectively delete, click on the “Delete” link opposite the line of the desired site.

You might be interested in how to delete browsing data in other browsers, see below:

• Google Chrome
• Mozilla
• Opera

What can these statistics be used for?

The resulting statistics can be used almost anywhere. One striking example is contextual advertising. For example, you may see that selling snowboards in the summer is not a good idea. Well, maybe with a big discount.