Cookie Library · Advertising
NID
Remembers your Search preferences, such as language and SafeSearch. Google also uses it to show ads to signed-out users and to personalize autocomplete, which is why it is listed as advertising rather than as a setting.
- Owner
- Google LLC
- Matches
- The exact name
NID - Needed to Work
- No. The site works without it.
- Confidence
- Verified
- Source
- https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies
- Last Reviewed
- 2026-09-15
Which Sites
Only on google.com and their subdomains. The same name on another site is a different cookie, and is not described here.