Google Images Adds Popular Search Suggestions
Google Image Search joins Google’s web search and Google Video in offering suggestions to auto-complete your search, often with a “wallpaper,” “logo,” or other popular terms. Don’t like the clutter? You can turn it off.
Just as with Google Preferences page while signed in, head down to the “Query Suggestions” section and choose “Do not provide query suggestions in the search box.” Or, as Google Operating System points out, you can manually add &complete=0 to your search URL if you’re not logged in or just want a one-time clean search.
Do you find search suggestions by Google, other web sites, and your own browsers to be a helpful, idea-generating feature? Or, perhaps, are popular suggestions not all that helpful in your search routine? Give us your Google feedback by proxy in the comments.
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Can we just assume almost all of the suggestions will be porn related.
Parker Bomar
I've actually found Google suggestions to be incredibly helpful. Especially when troubleshooting a computer, I'm surprised at just how often the very specific error message or code I'm looking up happens to be in a Google suggestion.
Also helps if I need to look up an actor or movie name but don't quite know how to spell it.
Now, I use my Firefox search box more than anything, but there it doesn't actually remove my browser's history-based suggestions, but rather, it has my history, a horizontal line, and then Google's suggestions. Is this not other people's experience?
@OCEntertainment:
I agree. It's nice when you don't have to type the entire error message out. @Parker Bomar:
I haven't noticed any porn related suggestions. It probably depends on your search filtering preferences, and (obviously) what criteria you have entered.
Donkey_Pasta
I find this very odd. I was searching for something (forget what) which started with "How to g..." Suggestions include "How to get pregnant" with 6 440 000 hits, "How to gain weight" with 9 990 000 hits, "How to grow weed" with 1 610 000 hits, and my personal favorite "How to give head" with 36 100 000 hits.
I find Google search suggestions to be incredibly useful. A lot of the time, the suggestions offer up thing I wouldn't thought of and they really help me narrow down my search.
Texasgurl
@Parker Bomar: Evidently not. Try typing 'porn'.
Hacksaw Jim Duggan? People still search for him?
@Colage: You don't?
Darkest Daze
@OCEntertainment: I think this is my major problem with it - instead of getting my personal auto-complete (of things I've searched for before) rather than Google's list. If I could get both, I would be happier.
JemimaSheep