How do you erase the words in your key word search,not the history but the words in the search box?

just click once on the box and it will highlight the words then back space and they will come off with out erasing your history.

If you are talking about the yahoo toolbar: click the pencil and go to clear search history! TO Delete recent searches from popping up in the drop down menu on a search page. Go to the search site site, click where you would type then push the down arrow on your keyboard. As you move your pointer over a word it is highlighted, Highlight the word in the list then hold down the delete key on your keyboard. To turn this feature off in yahoo tool bar: Click the pencil icon go to toolbar options/ under Search box uncheck the first 2. To turn this feature off Open an IE page go to tools at the top/ Internet options click the content tab/ then click the auto complete button/ uncheck every thing there Be sure to come back and vote for the best answer!

haha stop searching for naughty stuff

However, if you wish to delete search history saved by the browser and auto-filled when you type on the yahoo website, here is the solution: To clear your history from Internet Explorer: 1. Go to the "Tools" menu. 2. Select "Internet Options." 3. Click the "General" tab. 4. Click the "Clear History" button. To completely disable the history function, set "Days to keep pages in history" to zero. To turn off this feature: > Open an Internet Explorer page > Go to tools > Click on Internet options > Click the content tab > Then click the auto complete button, make sure you uncheck every thing in there. To clear your history from Mozilla Firefox: 1. Go to the "Tools" menu. 2. Select "Options" > "Privacy" > "History." 3. Click on "Clear." To completely disable the history function, set "Remember visited pages for the last X days" to zero ("0"). 4. Click "OK" to exit. This will resolve it all :)

As you highlight each one press "delete".