Google Suggest was launched on Google.com – it provides related search terms suggestion as you type in search box at google.com
Don’t like this feature and find that drop down box irritating? If so, just disable this feature and enjoy good old Google. Here goes the simple procedure:
- Open Google.com and click on ‘preferences’ button.
- Scroll down & check for ‘Query Suggestions’ option.
- Select among either option & click on ’save preferences’ button.
‘Do not provide query suggestions in the search box’ is the option to disable Google suggest option and ‘Provide query suggestions in the search box’ option is the keep Google Suggest enabled.
I DONT HAVE GOOGLE SUGGEST FEATURE?
Google Suggest is still in roll out stage – for example you may not see this feature on Google India (google.co.in). To test drive this feature check this URL http://www.google.com/webhp
USE GOOGLE WITHOUT GOOGLE SUGGEST FEATURE
Use this URL [http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0&hl=en] to access google, no Google Suggest pops here (Thanks Bri).
In Firefox, use the free Adblock Plus addon. In Options / My Adblocking Rules, then simply block the domain…
clients1.google.com
This is the server that handles Google’s suggestion keywords. Treating it as adware — which indeed it has now become — turns off Suggest.
This does not work for me. I am using Firefox browser with the google search tool but want to disable their auto suggest options. Tried all your above suggestions nothing works. Any ideas would be appreciated.
Putting http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0&hl=en in your home page works but only for web searches try it for images and you get the same thing, anyone know how to turn it off for all searchs in google?
This will prove to be the end of Google in the future. I’m already looking at other search engines after all these years using Google without a thought of looking elsewhere.
Now we need tools and apps written to ‘block’ all the ‘automated’ drop-down query suggestion nonsense that software providers ‘think’ we all need – annoying the world one user at a time.
Unbelievably annoying. Just try and “turn it off.” Then it comes back when you clear cookies (a frequent operation for many people) it comes back when you use another computer or use another browser or use your friend’s computer or your computer at work or another computer at work or at the library because IT wasn’t configured to STOP THE DAMN ANNOYING NOVICE AUTO-SUGGEST CR@P. Idiots.
@Bri Thnx for the update
@Lou Bri was big help!
THANK YOU, BRI!! I have been spending my entire work morning trying to disable the incredibly annoying Google Suggest feature. If you hadn’t posted this link to the old Google, I would have had to chang my search engine. Dear Google – Google Suggest is the most idiotic feature IN THE WORLD. People are not stupid. They do not have to be provided with 5,000 suggestions when they type in the letter P. Please fire whichever Google idiots implemented this new feature. I’m sure Google has determined a way to make money off of it, and that is why we have had this ridiculously distracting and disturbing “enhancement” shoved down our throats.
This method stopped working for me today; I suspect Google has made a recent change. Instead, use the following URL to access Google:
http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0&hl=en
This URL will give you ‘old’ Google…the one without that annoying Suggest feature….cheers