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When using the address bar in Chrome, ads appear in autocomplete

2 pointsby acadienalmost 5 years ago
Just today I noticed when searching about &quot;building &lt;something&gt;&quot; upon typing in &quot;bu&quot; &#x27;burger king&#x27; showed up in autocomplete. Has nothing to do with my search history, this happens on any google account from what I can tell?<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;t4mLBEt<p>Ads in search results, ads in maps, ads in email, ads in autocomplete.

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matchbokalmost 5 years ago
Set your search engine query to: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=%s" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=%s</a><p>A new chrome update changed it to a new one that has spammy stuff in it.
greenyodaalmost 5 years ago
This doesn&#x27;t seem to be a function of Chrome, but of your default search engine. If I set my search engine to Google, I get the same results as you did. But if I set it back to DuckDuckGo, I get:<p>Buzzfeed &#x2F; Burger King &#x2F; Buy Buy Baby &#x2F; ...<p>...without the icons.<p>If I just type &quot;b&quot; with DuckDuckGo set as Chrome&#x27;s search engine, the top result is &quot;bing&quot;, which I can&#x27;t imagine is something that Google wants me to see.<p>So it seems that Chrome is just returning the top few results returned by whatever search engine you&#x27;ve configured.