Google is making some changes to the way it saves your interactions with Search. In an email sent to users, Google says it will save the images, files, audio and videos you use to search under a new “Search Service History” setting.
Google says it will use your search service history to “provide, develop, and improve its services,” including its AI models, as well as provide personalized suggestions and ads if you have the new “Personalized Recommendations” setting turned on. Both of these settings will now be separate from Google’s Web & App Activity option, which previously included some toggles for saving search-related interactions and audio recordings and visual searches.
If you’ve already stopped Google from saving your search history through web and app activity, Google will keep the search service history turned off after the transition. When these settings are implemented in the “next few months,” it will also take over your personalization preferences.
<a href