Opting out of google search history of your personal search

[greengeek]

Nooby - I think that some of the symptoms you are discussing are related to "Google Suggest" or "Google Prompt" which is a feature that remembers other peoples most common/recent searches and displays those suggestions below your search box when you are typing in a word that you want to search.

It is a very annoying feature. I turn it off by making the following address my home page:

http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0

(the last character is a "zero" not an "Oh"). This tells Google that you want a fresh search with no prompting.