Safari History not showing Google Searches

This can be resolved by turning off Google's "Instant Search" feature.

On the Google search page, click on "Search settings" in the top right hand corner. You will be taken to a preferences page. Choose "Do not use Google instant" then save the changes. After that, Google search history from the Google homepage will be recorded and can be browsed without issue.

I have tested this on a 24" iMac running OS X 10.6.6 and Safari 5.0.3. Obviously the preferences disappear if you delete your cookies.

It is something on your computer.
To test:
Clear your cache and history.
Restart Safari and make Google searches.
See if they're in the History list.

If not,
Clear all your Google Cookies.
Restart SAfari.
Test again.

To find the culprit requires a process of elimination.

Message was edited by: ~Bee

begemot2 --
Have you read this?
Its from Google's help page.
I typed in "Google History" and got this:
http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=54066

Here are the first two reasons Google History is not recorded:
+Web History only records your web activity while you're signed in to your Google Account. You'll know that you're signed in if you see your email address in the top right corner of your Google homepage. If you visit webpages or perform searches without signing in, they won't be recorded.+

+Web History doesn't record the addresses of webpages that are prefixed with https://.+

Interesting, eh?
Google is actually preventing history from being recorded from it's home page
unless you're signed into their site. Boo Hiss!!!!!

I have the exact same problem. I even tried that: once Google redirected me to the page I wanted, I accessed another site, then clicked the return button, but still the page wouldn't show in History even if reloaded the page. The only thing that works is to copy the page url and paste it in new tab. Only then would the page show in History. That's pretty weird and annoying...

Performing searches through the Search Box seems to bypass this issue. I prefer using google.ca though, so I installed the PopSearch extension and pointed the google search to that. That works as well.

These are really kludge workarounds though. The history recording algorithm in Safari 5 is definitely broken vis-a-vis Google searches from a Google search page. Neither Firefox nor Camino exhibit this strange behavior and record the search correctly within an properly labeled and retrievable link.

I have Safari 5.0.2 and have the same problem. When I want to redo a search, and go back to check the content results of the original search there is only a blank google page without the search results. This seems to have occurred after I downloaded a safari update. It appears the new update has a bug in it. I sent feedback today, but who knows if they will fix the problem, and there is not way to contact them directly about this. They make it so difficult to get any help on Safari, only through asking questions in forums.

Artistgirl101

Just over a week ago I completely wiped my HD (E & I) and reinstalled everything from scratch. I had trouble with 10.5.7 update way back when it was released (May 09). At that time I archived & installed to get back to 10.5.6.
I kept using 10.5.6 with Safari 3.2.1 and until about a month ago everything worked fine.
About a month ago Safari started freezing (mostly only for a few times at start of session) thus my recent E & I.
I can confirm that Safari 3.2.1 was recording Google search history perfectly normally right up until a week ago. Thus, while people were encountering trouble with the newer version of Safari, version 3.2.1 was recording the Google searches as usual.
Now that I have Safari 5.0.3 I have the same issue as others discuss here. Safari doesn't record any of the Google searches, only the blank Google homepage. It is VERY annoying and I hope Apple plans to rectify soon.
Sorry to other nationalities but probably only Aussies will get this: "Not happy Jan!"

I note the suggestion that the search history is recorded if we use the Google bar in Apple tool bar, but I have never used it and I don't particularly want to start.

On Aussie radio today I here news that Apple has been fined for releasing too much of OUR personal information to third parties. Maybe Apple wants to FORCE (or irritate) us into using that bar because it has better access to our search history. Hmmmmm.

I've discovered that I can use the Google search bar on my Internet Service Provider's home page and the Google search history is recorded in History (just as it used to be in earlier versions of Safari when searching from Google's homepage).

I'd prefer to use Google's homepage but I shall use this option over the Safari bar for the moment, while I consider whether to abandon Safari and download Firefox.

Thanks, dpg50000a! I was finding this very irritating (URLs visited from Google appearing not under the target URL but as "http://www.google.com/url?..." and turning off Instant Search is exactly what I needed to do.