How to avoid web results suggestions in cortana

Here we explain how to avoid how to avoid web result suggestions in Cortana in Windows 10. And it is very annoying that it shows the results of the web in each search you do, while this means an improvement in the local results of files, applications, settings and on your computer .

How to avoid the suggestion of web results in Cortana

When you're looking for a document you've been working on, trying to launch an application, or looking for a PC setup, you can quickly click the new search box on the taskbar to start a search. However, as soon as you start typing, Cortana pops up, and you'll start to see different results grouped together, including (sometimes unnecessary) web data.

Despite the fact that certain web results can be useful, they are not always necessary, because we tend to use Windows search to search for documents, settings and applications, that is, everything related to the internal, and we make a Online search as an external task in the web browser. Also, these Bing results seem to have a higher priority, making what you're really looking for appear at the bottom of the list, making the experience a bit inconsistent.

In this little guide we show you the simple steps to follow to prevent the operating system from showing you results from the web when you do a search on your computer.

How to disable web results in Windows 10

First click to open the search box on the taskbar.

• Click on the Notebook icon. Click on the Settings option.

Note: In Windows 10 build 14316 and later versions, the Settings button to access Cortana may appear in the navigation panel on the left.

On the Settings page, disable Cortana so that she doesn't give you any more suggestions, ideas, reminders or alerts. After Cortana is deactivated, deactivate the online search so that no more web results are included.

Now you will notice that the search box in the taskbar no longer says "Ask me something", it reads "Search in Windows", indicating that the task has been completed. Try doing a search once again, and this time you will see that the search results will no longer appear.

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In case you need a more advanced search experience, type in your search query, and click the search button "Search in My stuff". In the advanced search, you can sort the results by relevance or latest, and you can limit the result to a particular category (for example, Documents, Settings, Applications, etc.).

Keep in mind that stopping displaying web results in the taskbar will also disable Cortana in your system, which means that you will have to decide which option is more important to you.

After this process, you will not be able to take advantage of Cortana's intelligence to make natural language queries such as "Search images starting in August", so disabling web search results, and therefore Cortana, may take a little longer. I work on your internal searches.

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