Search queries appear as you type
As you type in the search box on Google Web Search 
, Google Suggest offers searches by other users that are similar to the one you're typing. Start to type
Why it's helpful
- Rest your fingers.
Search queries come in real-time, so typing[ golden gate b ] and then clicking 'golden gate bridge' is faster and easier than typing it out. - Catch a mistake.
Did you mean: Melbourne Australia? Start searching for [ melborn ] and Google Suggest will present 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 advertiser network, it will 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 search queries based on searches you've done in the past. You can tell a search query is from your history if it has a Remove link next to it. Data you send to Google is protected by Google's privacy policy . - Get useful information, fast.
We also include special universal search features in Google Suggest to connect you immediately with the information you're looking for. For example, if you type [ weather brus ] you'll see the current weather in Brussels, Belgium, described right in the list of suggestions. This also works for flight status, local time zones, area codes, package tracking, certain answers, definitions, calculations, plus currency and unit conversions.
How Google Suggest works
As you type, Google Suggest returns search queries based on other users' search activities. These searches are algorithmically determined based on a number of purely objective factors (including popularity of search terms) without human intervention. All of the queries shown in Suggest have been typed previously by other Google users. The Suggest dataset is updated frequently to offer fresh and rising search queries. In addition, if you're signed in to your Google Account and have Web History enabled, you'll see search queries from relevant searches that you've done in the past.
Does Google exclude any users' search queries from Suggest?The search queries that you see as part of Google Suggest are a reflection of the search activity of all web users. Just like the web, the search queries presented may include silly or strange or surprising terms and phrases. While we always strive to neutrally and objectively reflect the diversity of content on the web (some good, some objectionable), we also apply a narrow set of removal policies for pornography, violence, and hate speech.
In some cases, there may be a search term that seems surprising to you, but after doing some searching on the web, you may discover that it's a popular phrase online for some reason that you didn't anticipate. Queries in Google Suggest are algorithmically determined based on a number of objective factors (including search term popularity) without manual intervention.
If no search queries appear for a particular word or topic, it's likely due to one of the following reasons:
- The search term is not popular enough. Queries that aren't popular are less likely to be useful in Suggest. A minimum algorithmic threshold for popularity helps us fight spam and improves the likelihood that the search queries you do see are relevant to your search. We also make regionally appropriate adjustments to Suggest, so the search queries you see on Google Australia (google.com.au) or Google France (google.fr) may be different from those you see on Google.com.
- The search term is too fresh. It can take some time for newly popular search terms to consistently appear in Suggest. While you'll usually be able to discover new queries within an hour, in some cases it can take a few days to a few weeks for recently popular search queries to start appearing in Suggest.
- The search term violates our Suggest policies. We aim to provide you with relevant search queries, but we exclude a narrow class of search queries related to pornography, violence, and hate speech.
- The search term was mistaken for a policy violation. Our policy review process is neither perfect nor instantaneous. There might be occasions where the system aims to exclude a query in one language that would be perfectly fine in another language. For example, we might inadvertently exclude a compound word because it includes a translation of a bad word from another language.
Turn off Suggest
To disable Google Suggest, follow these steps:
- Visit the Google Preferences page .
- In the 'Query suggestions' section, select "Do not provide query suggestions."
- Click Save Preferences at the top or bottom of the page.
If you still want to see some search queries, but don't want to see search queries based on your web history, you can also control how Personalized Suggest works. Here are your options:
- Remove a particular search query from your web history by clicking the Remove link next to the search query as it appears. (If the search query is a popular Google search, it may still appear in Google Suggest, even 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.
Ask a question or report a problem with Google Suggest
If you see a problem in Suggest, it's probably caused by one of the scenarios described above and we are already working to address it. If you have feedback or questions about Google Suggest, you can post them in the Google Web Search Help Forum .
