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Internet search history question
| Tue, 06-07-2005 - 10:49am |
Someone please advise me how long msn and google keeps the search history on the page? I just found my very bad search history on my serious boyfriends computer by mistake. He is not denying it but says they are ages old, from the beginning of our relationship. He says when he met me, he wasn't ready for me but knew I was the long and didn't want to lose me. So, he looked for sex without strings, porn etc online.
I'm so shocked. I've never loved someone so much! Is this story true? Can searches still be on the page that is 6 months old, year old? or one week?
Please advise! Please!

If you still have access to his computer, and no one changed anything, you can go to Tools, Internet Options, and on the lower part it says History. In the box, it says how long the history remains. You can set it how long you want it, but by default, I do believe it's 30 days.
ie. Mine is set for zero. So after today, my history is gone.
You can also go to View, Explorer Bar, History, and the history pops up on the side of the internet screen and the history tells you WHEN he went to those sites. It can be ordered by date. So if he went there 5/31/04 it'll say so. But if it was 5/31/05 it'll say so also.
I'm sorry you had to deal with this, and well, many people find sex w/o strings nowdays, and porn is normal. But, of course, if it's soething you aren't comfy with, then you have to ask yourself, is he the one for you?
~pineapple_girl
Ohhhh...............
Okay, that stuff will be there forever, until you search that many NEW things.
ie. if I search for Dogs today. And I use it again a few times within the year. But I do't use it again for 2 years, it'll be there.
It wo't go away until you search that amount of things to make it go away. So, unles he uses it A LOT, and you KNOW he does, he's lying. If he doesn't use it a lot, then yeah, it could be there from a long time ago.
I just looked at my own history. My last one says "kapalua". I think I was researching that back in february. And the newest stuff, I searched within the last 2 months. I kow that I have seen stuff sit there for a LONG time.
So, on that note, you'll have to ask yourself if you can accept his answer as truth, or not, regardless of the truth.
~pineapple_girl
Thanks for your input! I don't think I will be able to trust him. He told me that, as one of his searches was "looking for women that want only sex", he did that in the beginning of our relationship and only slept with a few women! Sick! I"m done!
Who wouldn't be? He says because he was married for 15 years and he met me too soon, that he still needed to sew his wild oats! Whatever! Come on girls? BS right?
Who would put up with that?
It depends on the timeframe to me. If he was looking PRIOR to you coming along or even getting serious with you, then I have no problem wiht that. Heck, I had a FWB after my divorce and while dating my bf. When bf and I got serious, is when I ended it. Point being, different strokes for different folks.
If you don't even like the idea of him "sleeping around for fun" then yeah, you need to end it now. If he was looking right after he met you, and that bothers you, end it. If he was doing it AFTER you two were serious and exclusive, then he's flat out cheating. End it now.
Seems like the best solution for you, is to end it.
Like I said, for me, I have no issues with guys wanting to have sex, purely for the fun of having sex, because I do that too. Although, I do not do it while I'm in a serious r'ship, or exclusive r'ship, or dating seriously. The only reason my FWB and BF overlapped, was because bf wasn't sure what he wanted, so I kept MY options open too. and he and I weren't having sex. If we were, FWB would've ended also. Point is, I have sex with one person at a time. I am exclusive to only one person and no one else is in my life. I expect the same from my man...even if he had sex with 20 women in one year PRIOR to meeting me. As long as he's monogamous to me,I don't care. But again, that's me. and i'm telling you this only because not everyone will see "sowing their oats" as bad.
~pineapple_girl