For example, you can compute your top searches per month, or obtain graphs of the top co-occurring terms within your searches.
You can request your search history data from google, but beware! The data file that you'll get will contain your search terms, along with the date and time when you did these searches, and the websites that you visited after each search.
It only takes a few clicks!
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Go to Google Takeout
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Login to your Google account, if you're not logged in already
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You can now see a list of data sources, under 'Select data to include' Click on 'Select none'
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Scroll all the way down to 'My Activity' and select that, so that the button becomes blue.
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Click on the downward facing arrow to expand a short menu arrow and click on 'Select specific activity data'
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Click on the gray button 'Activity Data'
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On the pop-up up menu click on the first option 'Toggle all'. Then, click on 'Search' and 'OK'
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Once back in the main menu scroll all the way down and click on 'Next'
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Pick up your favorite delivery method and compression style and click on 'Create archive'
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Be patient as your google search history is being assembled, it may take up to a few minutes, especially if your history is rather large.
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Eventually you will obtain a link to an .zip file that you can download. Congratulations, your data is within this file!
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Once you have your Google Takeout data you can download this notebook and either run it locally on your own workstation, or upload your data on this pilot project on Open Humans and follow the instructions to run the notebook on the Open Humans Notebooks server.