How can I disable the new "Google Suggest" search feature?

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How can I disable the new "Google Suggest" search feature?

Does anyone know how I can disable the new "Google Suggest" search feature? It's driving me crazy!

I do a lot of academic online research and am really finding these "intuitive" features of Safari 4.0 cumbersome and distracting. I'm hating this particular build of Safari - ready to set sail for FireFox as my primary browser.

Help. All suggestions welcome 🙂

MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Jun 17, 2009 2:30 PM

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Answer 1

Jun 17, 2009 2:42 PM in response to Hugo Dwyer

Unfortunately, it's part of Google, not Safari.

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Klaus1

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Jun 17, 2009 2:45 PM in response to Hugo Dwyer

You can do this with Glims:

http://www.machangout.com/

This puts extra options into Safari's Preferences, one of which is to turn off search word suggestions.

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Jun 17, 2009 2:46 PM in response to Hugo Dwyer

Hi Hugo

Download/install Glims. Its search feature is much better than Safari's native one. When installed, you'll find Glims' preference options as a separate panel within Safari Preferences. In the Search Suggestions section you can alter the search parameters etc.

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Mrs H

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Jun 18, 2009 8:52 AM in response to Hugo Dwyer

Unless Google in 4 is vastly different from Google in 3, here's the easiest way we've found to disable the search suggestions.

Click on preferences beside the search bar on the Google home page.
Scroll down to nearly the bottom of the page where it says Query suggestions.
Disable this by clicking the appropriate button.

And, hurrah!, those annoying search suggestions are gone.

Save your preferences and continue searching.

Mrs H

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