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September 29, 2011

How to Find Visited Pages in Google Search

I'm not sure if this is a new feature, but it's pretty useful. Like most websites, Google's search engine changes the color of visited links from blue to purple. All browsers handle links this way by default, but websites can alter the colors using some CSS code.

If you're logged in using your Google Account and Web History is enabled, Google saves all the search results you visit to your Web History. When you're using a different browser or a different computer and you're logged in using the same account, Google changes the color of the visited links from blue to purple, irrespective of the browser or computer you've used to visit them. For example, I searched for [haploid] using Chrome, I clicked on one of the results, then I tried the same query in Internet Explorer and the page I've visited in Chrome already had a purple link.


Google also has a search filter that lets you restrict the results to visited pages. Just click "More search tools" in the sidebar and select "Visited pages". For pages you're visiting frequently, Google shows an annotation below the snippet: "You've visited this page X times. Last visit: ...". When you mouse over the snippet, Google suggests to +1 the link: "You've visited this page X times. +1 to recommend it on Google search!".


{ Thanks, KoalaBear. }

17 comments:

  1. Its been there from a very long time.

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  2. This is going to be interesting and I really didnt know about this before...

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  3. That is super information!! Thanks for sharing it.

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  4. How to get the old interface back?! :-O

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  5. Indeed a very good read! Very informative post with pretty good insight on all aspects of the
    topic!

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  6. awesome tips... but is there anywhere to avoid other people know what we are visit when they use our computer...?

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  7. It is useful but I'm not sure website owners will be happy about the block feature

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    1. As long as you don't tell anyone, it doesn't really work that well in 2017 anyways.

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  8. I am honestly quite frustrated at the "you have visited this page x number of times". I would prefer if it was a setting that can be easily disabled...

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  9. How do I see on what dates that page was visited b4???

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  10. Sorry to necro this, but Google no longer hides this bit even though my history and tracking is disabled on Firefox. Help keep it anonymous??

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  11. pl show if any download or web page is open

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  12. please help!! i can no longer see pages visited on chrome in my google history only searches... why is this and can i change it back?

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  13. Please, is there a way to change the purple color of links followed to some other color, say yellow? thanks Jim

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  14. please help!! i can no longer see pages visited on chrome in my google history only searches... why is this and can i change it back?

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