Google will now use your web browsing history as part of a 'profile' it builds on all signed-in Google users - and removing this information will limit the extent to which Google records your every move - including your embarrassing secrets.  

Google's new unified privacy policy takes effect all data already collected about you, including search queries, sites visited, age, gender and location will be gathered and assigned to your online identity represented by your Gmail and YouTube accounts. Even although Google's controversial new privacy policy is now 'live', you can still defend yourself against the search giant's prying eyes.

Follow the following step to remove your browsing history from google

1. Go to the google homepage and sign into your account.

2. Click the dropdown menu next to your name in the upper-right hand corner of your screen.

3. Click accounts settings

4. Find the "Services section"

5. Under "Services" there is a sub-section that reads "View, enable, disable web history." Click the link next to it that reads: "Go to Web History."

6. Click on "Remove all Web History"

Although disabling web history will not prevent Google from gathering and storing this information and using it for internal purposes, it does mean the Web giant will anonymise the data in 18 months.

It will also prevent it from certain kinds of uses, including sending you customised search results.

If you don't sign in, Google will track your searches via the computer's IP address. The only way to clear your personal history is by signing in.

While it is not known exactly how Google would use your combined information, the policy has been widely criticized.

The Center for Digital Democracy has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission.

Google co-founder Larry Page is being accused of allowing his search engine to invade the privacy of users