Google Search – How to Filter Specific Words from Suggestions

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I'd like to stop specific search terms (such as "gaming", "newgrounds", and "knowyourmeme") from appearing in my Google Search suggestions, since these terms tend to distract me from what I'm actually searching for. Is it possible to filter out specific terms from Google's automatic search suggestions?

Best Answer

If you use Firefox, you can open about:config and edit the keyword.URL preference. Set its value to https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&btnG=Google+Search&q=-gaming -newgrounds -knowyourmeme. Don't forget the trailing space! This will cause URL bar search to apply the filters you specify.

Still in Firefox, you can create a bookmark to the URL https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&btnG=Google+Search&q=-gaming -newgrounds -knowyourmeme %s and assign a keyword to it (by right-clicking the bookmark and clicking Properties). Let's say you assign the g keyword. Now if you type g my search in the URL bar, you will perform a search on "my search" with the aforementioned filters (the %s gets replaced with your query).

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