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Mark Pfost [PersonRank 1]

Friday, April 18, 2008
16 years ago2,585 views

I am rather frustrated with a recent problem on my google search bar. In the past when I would begin typing a search term the bar would try to auto complete past searches--a very nice feature. In the past few days something has happened which I dislike completely. Now I get google's (?) idea on what I should be searching. For example, if I begin typing Anas platyrynchous (the scientific name for a mallard) google tries to auto complete with things like anasazi or anastasia that I have never searched before. This does not happen if I use Scholar or my work computer, but it is driving me nuts on regular google searches--so much so that I used yahoo for a couple of days.

Worse yet, I cannot find a way to ask google how to fix this because I cannot find a way to contact them. Does anyone in google know how to fix this.

drtimofey [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

You bet we know:)
You have Google Experimental turned on.

Follow this link:
http://www.google.com/experimental/
Scroll down to "Keyword suggestions" and click the "Leave" button.

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Nope, it's a Google test for a wider release of Google Suggest. You can disable autocomplete by going to http://www.google.com/preferences and selecting "Do not provide query suggestions in the search box".

drtimofey [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

[put at-character here] Ionut Alex. Chitu
smarty:)

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/016637.html

Mark Pfost [PersonRank 1]

16 years ago #

Thanks for the suggestions, but they did not work. I finally cured the problem by going to internet options and deleting cookies and temporary files, and then clearing history. I'm not sure which one removed Google suggest from my machine, but I'm glad one of them did.

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Mark, it was probably a test cookie on your machine. Clearing it allowed you to get the normal Google cookie.

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