In Chrome, can I prevent a specific google autosuggestion (NOT an auto-completion) from displaying in the omnibar dropdown?

Let me preface this by saying there's tons of solutions out there for deleting items from your search history from showing up in the Chrome omnibar. That's NOT what I'm asking for.

When I type in the omnibar it will display matches in three categories; bookmarks (denoted with a star icon), items from your history (denoted with a page icon), and search "suggestions" (denoted with a magnifying glass icon).

I was hoping there was a way to ban certain "suggestions" from showing up.

For example, I use a tool at work that I call "lens", which I have bookmarked. When I type "lens" into the omnibar, the first result is always a "suggestion" for "lenscrafters", while my bookmark is farther down the list. I don't wear glasses and will never have a reason to select "lenscrafters" from the list. Can I prevent this (or any other suggestion) from showing up, without turning off suggestions entirely?

I believe this is default, universal behavior, but my current environment is: Chrome 58.0.3029.110 (64-bit) Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit

mmseng

Posted 2017-06-14T15:45:55.520

Reputation: 93

Have you tried right clicking suggestions? You might be able to remove individual suggestions that way – A Child of God – 2017-06-14T15:55:54.000

1@AChildofGod Yes. I've also tried highlighting suggestions and deleteing them in a variety of ways. That simply does not seem to be a functionality that exists. – mmseng – 2017-06-14T17:14:47.510

Answers

Based on the answers I've found so far, and this comment, this is probably not possible. It's also a very pedantic request, so I'm "closing" it with this answer.

mmseng

Posted 2017-06-14T15:45:55.520

Reputation: 93

-type in the omnibar chrome://flags/

-find Experimental contextual omnibox suggestion set it to disable

-find New omnibox answers in suggest types set it to disable

-find Omnibox entity suggestions set it to disable

repairmant

Posted 2017-06-14T15:45:55.520

Reputation: 74

Thanks for the reply, but this did not work immediately, after exiting and relaunching Chrome, or after clearing all browsing history except passwords and cookies and then exiting and relaunching. – mmseng – 2017-06-14T17:20:26.573

Omnibar should by default search thru history, bookmarks and predict urls also if its not then your install might be corrupt i'd suggest uninstall and look in appdata & program files to make sure its all gone, then reinstall – repairmant – 2017-06-14T18:55:14.953

I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Your answer seems to be a way to disable suggestions entirely. I am not trying to do that, and the problem is not that history, bookmarks, or url predictions aren't showing up in the omnibar. – mmseng – 2017-06-14T22:43:09.890

give me an example so I can better help you. You dont want it showing certain history? – repairmant – 2017-06-15T00:10:40.783

History is fine. The things I would like to customize are the google suggestions. As noted in the OP, these are the entries that show up with a "magnifying glass" icon next to them, as opposed to the history entries with a "page" icon, or the bookmark entries with a "star" icon. If the example I gave in the OP is not sufficient, what would be a better example? Thanks again. – mmseng – 2017-06-15T00:52:11.710