Disable Google Suggest In The Search Box

Google Suggest is a useful default feature which can predict what users type in the search box and offer relevant suggestions in real time. For instance, if you type “home” in the search box, Google Suggest will immediately offer you a list of suggestions started with home, e.g. “homebase”, “home office”, “home for sale”, “home insurance”, “home goods” ,etc. You could just click on the relevant search word/phase if it appears in the list to get the search results. This default feature surely will enhance your internet experience. Or will it? Do you find the second guessing a nuisance instead? If you don’t feel Google Suggest is helpful but irritating, just switch it off.


Google Suggest
How to switch off or disable your Google Suggest feature? The process is pretty simple. Just go to the Google Preference Page, look for the “Query Suggestions” section which is located at the bottom of the page and check “Do not provide query suggestions in the search box”.

Check “Do not provide query suggestions in the search box”

8 Responses to “Disable Google Suggest In The Search Box”

  1. wayne
    August 28th, 2009 07:48
    8

    Disabling does not work. It continually reverts to making suggestions each time internet explorer is activated each search has suggestions shown which is very annoying.

  2. I Am Loving Google More Everyday « Your Maven
    July 20th, 2009 12:02
    7

    [...] keywords related to the keywords you are just typing in the search bar. Although others want to disable the Instant suggestion feature in Google, for me  it is so convenient to use! No one can encourage me to remove Google toolbar in my [...]

  3. curlybill
    April 1st, 2009 07:38
    6

    This worked for me when first i disabled the query suggestion. Next I added it to my favorites. Close Gooogle then start it again click the google favorite and make it your home page. It should read like this http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0

  4. Paul
    February 26th, 2009 15:59
    5

    I don’t have the option to turn off the suggestions as there isn’t a “Query Suggestion” box appearing, and I agree these popups are F*&^%$g annoying. If you use Google as your home page reste it to http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0

    So far so good and no annoying suggestions – just hope it stays that way.

  5. michael
    February 8th, 2009 11:46
    4

    Right when the check box actually shows up it is easy enough .
    Today – no such setting in preferences.
    Where did the damn Query Suggestions check box and option go ?

  6. harish
    December 31st, 2008 13:13
    3

    Disabling googlesuggest in preferences page and saving does not work. Its useless. Is google sufficient sensitive to look in the problem?

  7. filo bleene
    October 9th, 2008 02:47
    2

    The response is wrong. The preference keeps getting reset to the default. So now every time I use google I am not only distracted by a bunch of popup text (the suggestions, none of which I want), but then I’m further distracted by having to go to the preferences page and reset my preference!

    I think its useful to suggest text that I searched for previously, but to suggest a bunch of text simply because it’s similar to what I’ve written so far is annoying and worthless.

  8. Topaz
    September 15th, 2008 00:46
    1

    But just going to the Google Preference Page is an inconvenience. They should have a checkbox to switch it on or off on the front page.

Leave a Reply

You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

Subscribe to comments feature has been disabled. To receive notification of latest comments posted, subscribe to My Digital Life Comments RSS feed or register to receive new comments in daily email digest.

New Articles

Incoming Search Terms for the Article

stop google suggestions - delete google suggestions - stop search suggestions - how to stop suggestions on google - how to stop google suggestions - search suggestion tool "turn off" google - disable suggestions on search bar - how to stop search suggestions - how to stop query suggestions - internet 8 search box disable "google suggestions" - how to delete google quick searches from my-touch phone - remove google suggestions - stop google predicting what i type - Do not provide query suggestions in the search box - disable suggestion box on firefox start page - instant suggestion - stop google suggestions firefox - firefox stop google suggested sites - Google Suggestions, how to delete - how do I stop google suggestions coming up? - turn on search suggestions in google IE8 - how to stop the search suggestions in google chrome - "google suggestion" ie hebrew - stop chrome searchsuggestion - how to delete google suggestions - stop google search suggestions - firefox is not suggesting searches as I type - deleting scholarly suggestions from google - how to remove google suggest - delete google search suggestions - "Firefox" "Do not provide query suggestions in the search box" - delete google suggestion box - disabling google query - stopping google suggestion box - turn off search suggestions in google chrome doesnt work - disable suggestions google toolbar ie8 - google search box suggestion erase - remove google query suggestions - search bar predicts what i want - stop google from making suggestions as i type in firefox - turn off google search suggestion - turn off automatic suggestions in search box - off Do not provide query suggestions in the search box. google - how do you stop google from suggesting stuff - how to disable suggestions in Search box - how to remove the suggestion box on google - how to disable Yahoo! Search Suggestions in explorer - remove google query search - remove google past search query - turn on google suggestions custom search -