Even with fierce competition from the likes of Bing, DuckDuckGo, and AI bots, Google remains the top choice for search queries on the web. We Google almost everything and sometimes forget what should ...

Google is the biggest website in the world and where many people start browsing the internet. But until recently, Google's internet search engine never had the ability to protect your privacy by ...

Every browser keeps a record of every single website you visit, known as search history. Search history proves beneficial at times, such as when you have to revisit the websites later on, say, to ...

Protecting one's privacy seems almost impossible in a world where so many companies track you online or where there's a camera in every pocket. Add the hackers who want to steal personal information, ...

Removing your personal information from people-search sites can feel pretty overwhelming. There are hundreds of these sites in the U.S. alone. In fact, the Privacy ...

Privacy, thankfully, is still a thing. Google unveiled a new tool Wednesday at I/O, its annual developer conference, which makes it easier for people to request that ...

The internet is chock-full of information, memes and wild conspiracy theories. Sadly, there is also a lot of your personal information floating out there around the web as well. Although there is not ...

Mary-Elisabeth is an associate writer on CNET's How-To team. She's a recent graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill's English Department, and resides in Charlotte, North Carolina. On the How-To team, she covers a ...

Once something is on the internet, it’s almost impossible to take it down. But Google now makes it easier for anyone to request the removal of their personal information from Google’s own search ...

You can now request to have your sensitive personal information removed from appearing in Google search results. The removal may not scrub it from the web entirely, though. If you’ve ever Googled ...