News history personalization

Your past activity on news content may be used to deliver you more useful, relevant news content on Google.

Since the information used to customize your results differs depending on whether you're signed-in or signed-out, the instructions for turning off search history personalization are a little different in each case, as described below.

Signed in searches

If you don’t want your news personalized to your news history, you can:

  • Click on the Standard U.S. Edition (or standard edition of your country) link at the bottom of Google News homepage. This will not delete any of your News settings or Web History. It will switch you to a non-personalized version of Google News for the duration of your current session. (To switch back, click on “Personalized U.S. Edition,” or the link for the personalized edition of your country.)
  • Browse in incognito (or private) mode.
  • Turn off your personalization by signing out of your Google Account.
  • Delete your web history or remove individual items from your web history (Google News may take some time to update). You can also turn off web history.
Signed out searches

If you aren't signed in to a Google Account, your Google News experience will be personalized based on past news browsing information linked to a cookie on your browser. To disable this type of personalization, follow these steps:

  1. Visit google.com/history/optout when not signed in to a Google Account(if you see the Google homepage, try visiting the link again).
  2. On the resulting page, click Disable customizations based on search activity. (Because this preference is stored in a cookie, it'll affect anyone else who uses the same browser and computer as you).

Or, if you'd rather just delete the current cookie storing searches from your browser and start fresh, clear your browser's cookies. Another option is browsing in incognito (or private) mode.

Note: If you've disabled signed-out news history personalization, you'll need to disable it again after clearing your browser cookies. Clearing your Google cookie clears your search settings, thereby turning history-based customizations back on.