Safari History not showing Google Searches

I know this is an old thread, but I recently noticed this very same issue in Safari 5.1.7. Many pages not saved in Safari History, most notably ones I found when starting from Google's homepage. I also get blank pages sometimes. I thought Apple sent out a fix for this already in their most recent Safari update.

I tried the solution listed as being correct, but I cannot find the potion for 'Do not use Google Instant' in the Search Settings on Google's homepage. Perhaps it has been removed?

I have always had Firefox, since Mozilla first started making web browsers, even back in the Thunderbird years, so have decided to just go back to using it as my first choice browser.

dpg50000a wrote:

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.

Hi Schoodle,

Once again resurrecting this old thread.

For me, disabling Instant Search did not prevent this behavior. If you want to try it on your computer and see if you have different results, first visit google.com, then perform a search. The Settings icon doesn't appear until you are on a results page.

For my setup, this problem was caused by the use of SSL searches (through httpS://google.com rather than the non-secure http://google.com). Something about the redirect from the secure google search page to the target link makes the wrong page be entered into the Safari history. Unfortunately, the only way to disable SSL searching now is to sign out of your google account or use a different browser, neither of which are a very appealing option to me.

I filed a bug report with Apple and hopefully this will be resolved in a future update.

dpg50000a's solution works on MacOS X 10.10.4/Safari 8.0.7. The Google Search Preferences page is at https://www.google.com/preferences. Weirdly, Safari is still showing results-as-I-type after I disabled Google Instant predictions. What has changed, though, is that the search result pages are shown Safari's history. Thanks!

Safari's image view for History is so broken. 90% of pages are blank either because of https or google instant search, or whatever else stuffs it up.

Tried everything above on my Macbook running OSX 10.10.5 and Safari 8.0.8. Nothing works to retain Google searches in history. Apple really needs to get a grip on Safari.

I use Duck Duck Go as my search engine. And all pages are retained in Safari. I will not use Google, gmail, or anything else Google, as they're way too interested in my browsing habits.