Google help

[iain1067]

Don't know if anyone can help with this, got up this morning turned the pc on and whereas before the google search bar had saved my previous searches i.e if i had searched for rail times, it would show rail times and anything else that i had searched for beginning with the letter R. Now all i get is nothing specific to my old searches and i have to type in rail to get a list of 10 or so.

cheers

[Laurel]

Don't know if anyone can help with this, got up this morning turned the pc on and whereas before the google search bar had saved my previous searches i.e if i had searched for rail times, it would show rail times and anything else that i had searched for beginning with the letter R. Now all i get is nothing specific to my old searches and i have to type in rail to get a list of 10 or so.

cheers

Have you deleted your cookies recently? Or have you installed the new google tool bar?

I have noticed that google stopped saving my searches and instead show most popular searches that other people have typed in that relate to whatever i'm typing. So I suspect that they search settings on google have been updated and changed.

Sonic - what are your thoughts on the matter?

[Dan]

Predictive search has been the norm for a while now - "it's a feature, not a bug"

[Sonic]

Sonic - what are your thoughts on the matter?

I'm curious as to what porn train times the OP has been looking for.

As Dan says, google has done drop down predictive text searches for a while, but if it's being populated by your previous searches it could either be a client side browser cache or a site cache, specifically for google.

My guess would be browser cache. What browser are you using?

Is this is something you want to disable permanently this might be more difficult, but if you just want to look for porn train times every now and then most browsers have a private mode which doesn't log any cookies or history, called incognito in chrome and private browsing in firefox.

[Laurel]

I'm curious as to what porn train times the OP has been looking for.

[Dan]

I thought the OP was after the other way round - ie. he wants it to rememeber previous searches, but it's not.

Also, I'm now curious as to what "porn times" are (apart from the time between you getting home and Saffron finishing work... )

[iain1067]

i am using firefox, and as i said all was fine yesterday, today not the same all i get now is predictive which like predictive texting pisses me off. i just want to use it how i did before so if there is a way to switch predictive off great, i can always delete the searches manually like i did before

[borderS2]

Google

go to your preferences page

http://www.google.com/preferences

google instant option

[iain1067]

tried that still have the same problem

[DamianURS4]

all this talk of manually deleting history......... suspect ;-)