google archives where to download How to Download, Delete, or Pause Your Search History. Google recently unveiled the ability to download – as in save to your device – your entire search history. Now, in addition to being able to pause or purge it completely, you can have a physical copy of everything you’ve searched for over the years. Of course, there are a couple of catches. First, it’s not an instant download. You have to request an archive, after which Google sends you an email to alert you when it is ready. You can then view the archive on or download the zipped file to your computer or device. Further, the archive you get is broken down into multiple , which are saved in an unfamiliar format (JSON). Fortunately, JSON files will open with any text editor though it won’t be easily readable. This article will explain how to not only download your search history, but also read it, purge it, and turn it off (pause). Downloading Your Search History. The first thing you want to do is make sure you’re logged into your . Your account settings can be accessed by going to myaccount.google.com or you can click on your picture in the upper-right corner and then click “Account.” On the “Account settings” page, scroll down to the “Account tools” section and then click on “Account history,” which lets you “manage account history and related settings.” There’s a lot of stuff here you should peruse at your leisure. It’s a good idea to always know what information Google is collecting on you and how to manage it. Under “Your searches and browsing activity,” there’s a box that, if checked, will collect your activity from Chrome and and other apps. This means that Google will compile information from your web searches and apps connected to your account and use that information to provide more accurate, personalized search results. Click “Manage History” to access your search activity history and further settings. You may be asked to enter your password again. Here then is how your search history might appear. Google displays your search activity by hours and days. Click on any given day from a month to view your search history for that day. Click the gear icon and “Download” to get started. A stern warning will appear strongly urging you to read everything. It explains that your archived data will be available to download from Google Drive, that you shouldn’t download this data on public computers, etc. Once you’re carefully read this information and you feel you’re ready, click “Create Archive.” Like we said, the download isn’t instantaneous. You will have to wait until Google has your archive ready, after which they will send you an email. If your search history is longer and more extensive, it might take more time. Once finished, Google will send you a message that “Your history archive is ready.” At this point, you can either download the zipped archive to your computer or device, or view it in Google Drive. The Google Drive method is convenient, though you still have to unzip the archive to view its contents. We found it easier to go ahead and download the archive to our computer and view the files from there. Viewing Your Search History. When Google archives your search history, it divides it up into multiple JSON files, each about four months of activity, sorted by date. If you double-click on any of the enclosed files, it should open up with your system’s text editor. From the following screenshot, you can see that searches are shown next to anything with the string “query_text”. The “timestamp_usec” string is a bit harder to figure out. For this we used a simple website that converts time stamps into plain English. We first paste our timestamp into the box and click “Convert to Date.” Note the first time we enter our timestamp, it converts the date incorrectly. This is because the timestamp from our search history is too long. The timestamp converter will automatically shorten it so all you need to do is click “Convert to Date” again and it should display the correct date and time. So on March 27, 2013 at 11:37 PM CST, we performed a search for www..com, which we can verify by looking at our history from our Google account. You should be able to view JSON files in any text editor such as Notepad, TextEdit, or Microsoft Word. We searched online for some kind of JSON viewer that makes it even more readable, but none of them seemed worth the effort. If you’re wanting to pore over your search history from the start to finish, then a text editor probably won’t meet your demands ideally, but for simple curiosity, it works well enough. For everything else however, you can always view your search history from your Google account. Purging Your Search History. That said, what if after you download your search archive, you want to purge it from Google’s servers? To do this, we first need to make sure we’re in our Google search history management page. Again, click the gear icon but now instead of “Download”, choose “Remove Items.” A dialog will appear offering to remove your search history from “the past hour” to “the beginning of time.” When you’ve made your decision, click “Remove” and that duration of search history will be purged. Pausing Your Search History. Finally, if you want to “pause” (disable, suspend) you searches and browsing activity, then you need to once again return to your “Account history” page. Click the switch in the upper-right corner to pause your search history. You be asked to confirm your action. Google warns that while your web and app activity is paused, it may still use searches made within your active browser session to “improve the quality of your search results.” Click “Pause” when you’re ready. Now your search and browsing activity is paused, as evidenced by the fact that the on/off switch is gray. Obviously, if you ever want to reenable the history activity, you simply click the switch again, which will resume collecting your search history. So, as you can see, there’s actually quite a bit more to downloading your search history than earlier news reports might have indicated. While it’s a relatively simple process overall, there are still a few details that might trip up folks. We hope then that this article has been helpful, and if you have any comments or questions you’d like to share with us, we urge you to leave your feedback in our discussion forum. How to Search the Archive. Google News Archive offers a wealth of digitized historic newspapers online — many of them for free. The Google newspaper archive project was discontinued by Google many years ago but, although they stopped digitizing and adding new papers and removed their useful timeline and other search tools, the historical newspapers that were previously digitized remain. The downside of this is that, due to poor digital scanning and OCR (optical character recognition), a simple search of the Google newspaper archive rarely pulls up anything but major headlines. In addition, Google News has continued to deprecate their newspaper archive service, making it extremely difficult to search for content prior to 1970, although they have hundreds of digitized newspaper titles prior to this date. You can improve your chances of finding great info in Google News Archive with a few simple search strategies. Use Google Web Search. Searching within Google News (even the advanced search) no longer returns results older than 30 days, so be sure to use web search when searching for older articles. Google Web Search doesn’t support custom date ranges earlier than 1970 or content behind a paywall — but that doesn't mean you won't find content prior to 1970 by searching, you just can't restrict your searches to only that content. Check Availability First. A full list of the digitized historical newspaper content is available online at the Google News Archive. It generally pays to start here to see if your area and time period has coverage, although if you're looking for something interesting or potentially newsworthy (a railroad accident, for example) you may find it also reported in papers from outside the area. Restrict Sources. While it is most common to search for individuals in a specific location, Google no longer offers the option to restrict your search to a particular newspaper title. Each newspaper does have a specific newspaper ID (found after "nid" in the URL when you select the title from the newspaper list), but the site search restriction does not consider this. Instead, try using a newspaper title in quotes, or use just a single word from the title of the paper to restrict your search; thus a source restriction for "Pittsburgh" will turn up results from both the Pittsburgh Press and the Pittsburgh Post- Gazette. Date Restrict. To search content older than 30 days, use the Google advanced web search page to restrict your search by date or date range. You can bypass the restriction on dates older than 1970 by using Google's site search feature on the news archive alone. This isn't precise, as it will include any mention of that date or year and not just papers published on the date you've selected, but it is better than nothing. Example: site:news.google.com/newspapers pittsburg 1898. Use Generic Terms. Browse through several issues of your newspaper of interest to become familiar with the general layout of the paper and the terms used most often in your sections of interest. For example, if you're looking for an obituary, did they commonly use the term "obituaries," or "deaths" or "death notices," etc. to head that section? Sometimes section headers were too fancy to be recognized by the OCR process, so also look for words frequently found in the general text then use that search term to look for content. Consider whether your term is appropriate for the time period as well. If you're searching contemporary newspapers for information on World War One you will need to use search terms such as great war , because it wasn't called World War One until after the commencement of World War Two. Browse This Paper. For best results when searching digitized historical newspaper content in Google, there really is no way around using the browse feature rather than search. All things considered, it's still better than having to go down to the library to look at microfilm. Begin with the newspaper list to browse directly to a specific newspaper title in the Google News Archive. Once you select a title of interest, you can easily navigate to a specific date using the arrows or, even faster, by entering the date in the date box (this can be a year, month and year, or a specific date). When you're in the newspaper view, you can get back to the "browse" page by selecting the "Browse this newspaper" link above the digitized newspaper image. Locating a Missing Issue. If Google appears to have newspapers from your month of interest but is missing a few particular issues here or there, then take time to view all pages of the available issues both before and after your target date. There are many examples of Google running together several newspaper issues and then listing them only under the date of the first or last issue, so you can be browsing an issue for Monday, but end up in the middle of the Wednesday edition by the time you browse all of the available pages. Downloading, Saving, and Printing. Google News Archive does not currently offer a direct way to download, save, or print newspaper images. If you want to clip an obituary or other small notice for your personal files, the easiest way to do this is to take a screenshot. Enlarge your browser window with the relevant page/article from Google News Archive so that it fills your entire computer screen. Use the enlarge button in Google News Archive to enlarge the article you want to clip to an easy to read size that fits entirely within your browser window. Hit the Print Screen or Prnt Scrn button on your computer keyboard to capture a screenshot. Open your favorite photo editing software and look for the option to open or paste a file from your computer's clipboard. This will open the screenshot taken of your computer browser window. Use the Crop tool to crop the article in which you're interested and then save it as a new file (try including the newspaper title and date in the file name). If you're running Windows Vista, 7 or 8, make it easier on yourself and use the Snipping Tool instead. If you can't find historical newspapers in Google Newspaper Archive for your area and time period of interest, then Chronicling America is another source for free, digitized historical newspapers from the United States. Several subscription websites and other resources also offer access to online historical newspapers. Download your Currents data. You can export and download your Currents data, including your Currents circles, Communities, Streams, and Likes. To learn more about what you can download, read Export your data from Google Currents. Note: Downloading your Currents data does not delete your Currents profile. Learn how to delete your Currents profile. Download all your Currents data. You can download an archive of all your Currents data at once, including your Currents circles, Communities, Streams, and Likes. Your Currents archive includes your photos and videos from Currents. Go to the Download your data page. You might have to sign in. Your available Currents data will be preselected. Click Next. Choose a file type. Choose your delivery. Click Create archive. Download specific Currents data. Instead of downloading all of your data, you can download specific Currents data, like your photos, posts, communities, or events. Important: If you want to download your photos and videos from Currents, make sure to select Photos under "Currents Stream." Go to the Download your data page. You might have to sign in. Next to the type of content you want to download, like Currents Stream, click the Down arrow . Click Select specific data . Select the specific data you want to download. Click OK. Click Next. Choose a file type. Choose your delivery method. Click Create archive. Save your photos and videos. Step 1: Download your photos and videos. Go to the Download your data page. You might have to sign in. To download your photos and videos from Currents, make sure that "Currents Stream" is selected, click on "All Currents Stream data included" and make sure the Photos option is selected. Click Next Step . Choose a file type. Choose your delivery method. Click Create archive . Note: Your archive may take minutes or days before it’s available. Step 2: Save your photos and videos. For best results, follow these steps on a computer: When your content is ready to download, you’ll get an email. Open the email and click Download archive . Sign in to your Google Account. Next to your archive, click Download . On your computer, go to the downloads folder, and open the file. Your photos will be in the "Photos" folder inside the "Currents Stream" folder that appears. Optional: How to upload your content to . After you download your photos to your device, you can store them on your device or upload them to Google Photos or another photo service. There are 2 ways to back up your phone, camera, or storage card from your computer to Google Photos: Install Backup and Sync. Upload photos from your browser. Download Currents data for deleted Currents accounts. If you previously deleted your Currents account or your Currents page, we informed you that your photos and videos from Currents would continue to appear in your Album Archive and your Currents Events content wouldn’t be deleted. We will begin deleting this content on April 2, 2019. If you want to keep this content, download it using the above instructions before April 2019. Note: Photos and videos backed up in Google Photos will not be deleted. Learn about types of Currents content you can download. To download content you created in Currents, like photos, events, and posts, select Currents Stream. You will get: Posts you created, including comments, Likes, and other activity Collections you created Tags you follow Photos you shared in your posts and comments. Currents circles. To download your circles data, select Currents circles. You will get: First names Last names Nicknames Display names Currents profile URLs. Currents Communities. To download data for Communities where you’re an owner or moderator, select Currents Communities. You will get: Names and links to Currents profiles of community owners, moderators, members, applicants, banned members, and invitees Links to posts shared with the community Community metadata, including community picture, community settings, content control settings, your role, and community categories. For public communities, you will also be able to download additional details including author, body, and photos for every community post. Archive or mute . Tip : If keyboard shortcuts are turned on, you can also press e to archive an email you're looking at. Find or move messages you archived. Messages you archived aren't deleted, and you can find them any time. Search for archived messages. When you search in Gmail, your results will include any messages that have been archived. Open All Mail. The All Mail label is added to every message. If a message has been archived, you can find it by opening the All Mail label. On your computer, go to Gmail. On the left, click More . Click All Mail . Move archived messages back to your inbox. On your computer, go to Gmail. Find the archived message. Next to the message, check the box. At the top, click Move to Inbox . Mute or ignore messages. On your computer, go to Gmail. Open or select the conversation. At the top, click More Mute . 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