Google Search Suggestions

There has been a change at Google.
If you guys are using their Home page for searches,
They are no longer recording history unless you are signed in at their site.

http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=54066

+Web History only records your web activity while you're signed in to your Google Account. You'll know that you're signed in if you see your email address in the top right corner of your Google homepage. If you visit webpages or perform searches without signing in, they won't be recorded.+
+Web History doesn't record the addresses of webpages that are prefixed with https://.+
+Web History can record both your searches on Google properties and the addresses of pages you visit. It only records searches made on certain Google properties such as Google Web Search, Google Images, Google News, Google Product Search, Google Video, Google Maps, Google Books, and on particular Google domains. If you're using other Google products such as Google Reader, or if you're searching on some country-specific Google domains (such as Google.ae), your searches and clicks won't be recorded.+
+To configure Web History so that it also records the sites you visit, you need to use your Google Toolbar. If you enable Web History in Toolbar, the Toolbar will send URLs of pages you've visited to Google to be stored with your Google Account. Learn more.+

+You also need to make sure that your web history isn't limited to searches. To expand your web history, click the Expand your web history link at the top of your web history page.+

So, if Google is not keeping history, it will not make suggestion, eh?
Just a thought.

FWIW the Mail.app issue I described two posts up was resolved in another discussion: for some reason, upon account setup Mail stipulates Port 995 instead of 993. I just went to Advanced, then corrected it. Now it works.

IT WORKS!!!

I updated glimm blocker and it's working like a charm!

I'm glad for you avedon! I don't use glimm blocker, so I'm wondering what it is that's breaking it for me.

Could you please confirm your setup? Are you using 10.6.4? Safari 4 or 5?

Thanks.

Hi alex,

I'm on 10.6.4 & 5.0.1.

sorry you couldn't find asolution yet.

Your problem may not be exactly the same as that of the original poster of this thread, and it can be very confusing for everybody if we try to answer more than one question in each thread.

In order for us to give your problem our undivided attention in order to try to solve it, would you kindly start your own thread, describing the trouble you are having in the fullest detail, including completing your details to show what Mac you are using, what operating system, and what version of the application in question.

I solved the problem on Safari by updating the 4.0.5 version to 5.0.1.
I still don't get suggestions on Firefox. But I use Safari most of the time, so I may be missing an internal Firefox setting that activates it.

I'm sorry if I missed it, but are you the first one to report FF not showing the suggestions?

BTW I also 'fixed' it in Safari by upgrading from 4.0.5 to 5, but I had to revert to 4.0.5 (I don't have 1Password for v5, and I need it daily...), so upgrading to Safari 5 is not a viable option for everyone.

Besides, why on earth do we all experience this with Safari 4? Is it something that Apple has done? Google? or is there some other common thread behind all of us reporting the same issue?

Alex, I did see one or two other people reporting the problem on Firefox.

--thelma

Ok, my Firefox problem really was that I hadn't activated the 'show search suggestions' line

i have the solution for some of you who have glims installed.
try this:
go to preferences, glims, general, then where it says enable "search suggestions" plugin **
untick this.
voila, should be working, it did it for me.
let me know how you get on.

I'm just trying to bring this thread back at the top: exactly how is it possible for Safari to misbehave on our Macs? I mean, it was fine a few days ago. Then for some of us it stopped offering search suggestions through the search box. Is it something we have done in common?

How come Safari works fine on my wife's Acer D150? How come Safari 5 worked fine for me when I upgraded to it? and then it stopped working again once I downgraded back to 4.0.5?

Just from a troubleshooting point of view, I mean...

I just installed glimms and got my search suggestions back. Now, I wonder what'll happen if I go ahead and uninstall it. Will they have been jiggled enough to stay with Safari?

Hey, so is this problem solved for all of you? I mean, is this problem really solved?? I'm using Safari on both Windows and Mac and search suggestions are not working.
Why has this thread gone silent??

I wouldn't call it "calved" for me; it's just that I gave it a try installing Glimms, and I have now got search suggestions (plus a few other gizmos which I don't mind having...) and I have no way to verify that Safari itself would offer search suggestions without Glimms, save for uninstalling it and giving it a shot.

Which I might do, if I get the chance from real-life work.

As a side note, I think it's completely bizarre, especially since so many seem to be affected. I know Apple are not (officially) reading this thread, but I would sure appreciate some update for Safari 4 to correct the issue.