Year of the Code Monkey

Google recently enabled “Search Suggest” at their official home page. I find this feature annoying, and I wanted a way to disable it. Thankfully, the solution was very simple:

1. Visit the Search Preferences page
2. Set the Query Suggestions option to “Do not provide query suggestions in the search box”
3. Save your preferences

I wish Google had made disabling this a little clearer, rather than quietly adding the preference to the preferences page.

3 Responses

1. 1

   Dustin
   March 27, 2008 at 6:25 pm

    

   Why are you using the google home page? Don’t you have a google search bar in your browser?

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   Jonah
   March 27, 2008 at 6:49 pm

    

   Ha, I’ve thought about that fact more than once. I’ve gotten into a bad habit of doing all my one-off, “throw away” searches from the Google home page. For stuff I’m more likely to come back to, I’ll search from Googlebar Lite.

   I need to get over that and do everything from the toolbar.

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   Max
   April 10, 2008 at 10:16 am

    

   I think its right wha zou are saying google is that thing.

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