Suggestions appear as you type
As you type into the search box on Google Web Search, Google Suggest offers searches similar to the one you're typing. Start to type
To pick a suggestion, just click it.
Why it's helpful
- Rest your fingers.
Need to do a big search on a tiny keyboard? Suggestions come in real-time, so typing[ great w ] and clicking 'great wall of china' is faster and easier than typing it out. - Catch a mistake.
Did you mean: Melbourne Australia? Start searching for [ melborn ], say, and Google Suggest will offer more common spellings for what you might be trying to find. - Skip a page; save some time.
If Google detects that a specific site is relevant to the search you're typing, we'll provide a link straight to it, so you don't have to wait for the search results page. If a link is to a site in our adversiter network, it'll appear in a colored box labeled 'Sponsored Link.' - Repeat a favorite search.
If you're signed in to your Google Account and have Web History enabled, we may show some suggestions based on searches you've done in the past. You can tell a suggestion is from your history if it has a Remove link next to it.
Want to turn suggestions off?
To disable search suggestions, follow these steps:
- Visit the Google Preferences page.
- In the 'Query suggestions' section, select 'Do not provide query suggestions'
- Save your settings.
If you don't want to see suggestions based on your web history, you have four options:
- Remove a particular suggestion from your web history by clicking the Remove link next to the suggestion as it appears. (If the suggestion is a popular Google search, it may still appear in Google Suggest, though it has been removed from your web history.)
- Sign out of your Google Account while you search on Google.
- Remove particular searches from your Web History at www.google.com/history
- Remove Web History from your Google Account.
More about Google Suggest
As you type, Google Suggest communicates with Google and comes back with the suggestions we show. If you're signed in to your Google Account and have Web History enabled, suggestions are drawn from searches you've done, searches done by users all over the world, sites in our search index, and ads in our advertising network. If you're not signed in to your Google Account, no history-based suggestions are displayed. Data you send to Google is protected by Google's privacy policy.
We try to filter out suggestions that include pornographic terms, dirty words, and hate and violence terms. If you encounter a term that should not be suggested, please let us know by posting in the Google Web Search Help Forum.
