How to Fix the Most Annoying Thing About Google Search

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Google Search — the feature you likely use every time you type something in your browser’s search bar — is the most popular search engine on the planet.

Millions and millions of people use it for everything and anything, from researching school projects to shopping for the latest gaming consoles, looking for cool new recipes to finding that movie you can’t remember the name of.

The problem is that when typing fast, we all can fall victim to the occasional spelling error. And since Google remembers, it will autofill that mistake over and over again. Ugh.

Fortunately, Google is smart enough to remember, and it can be trained to forget. Whether you’re using Google Search in Chrome, or another web browser like Safari or Firefox, here’s how you can delete mistakes as well as disable its auto-fill feature entirely.