diff --git a/templates/zerver/app/home.html b/templates/zerver/app/home.html
index 6e6e0eca83..c5b9213d9f 100644
--- a/templates/zerver/app/home.html
+++ b/templates/zerver/app/home.html
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
             {% trans %}
             End of results from your
             <a href="/help/search-for-messages#searching-shared-history"
-              target="_blank">personal history</a>.
+              target="_blank">history</a>.
             Consider <a class="search-shared-history" href="">searching all public streams</a>.
             {% endtrans %}
         </p>
diff --git a/templates/zerver/help/search-for-messages.md b/templates/zerver/help/search-for-messages.md
index 37f8bca2de..891152605d 100644
--- a/templates/zerver/help/search-for-messages.md
+++ b/templates/zerver/help/search-for-messages.md
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ shared history](/help/stream-permissions), including messages sent
 before you joined the stream (or organization) or those sent to public
 streams you are not subscribed to.
 
-By default, Zulip searches messages in your personal history, i.e. the
+By default, Zulip searches messages in your history, i.e. the
 messages you actually received.  This avoids cluttering search results
 with irrelevant messages from public streams you're not interested in.