When entering a search term which is not found the search results page at the bottom suggests me to search via Google. I dont want to promote Google and also its missleading to asume the closed-community content is searchable with a Google search. Can you turn that off?

You can hide the google search with css .google-search-form { display: none; } To get rid of the “Try searching with Google instead:”[1] and “Or try searching with Google instead:”[2] you could replace the texts js.search.search_google and js.search.or_search_google with something like “(Or) try searching with a different term.” for users who cannot start a new topic ↩︎ for users who can start a new topic ↩︎

I am surprised that it is shown to you in a closed community. I think it should only appear if login_required is false. This is what I see in my login-required forum: [start a new topic]

yeah unfortunatelly we dont have login regquired = true but have nearly all categories limited to level1. (Idea behind is to have a friendly start page which basically shows public company news announcements). But good to know that Discourse already observes this.

[image] Moin: You can hide the google search with css .google-search-form { display: none; } I’ve just applied this today, thank you :slight_smile: [No Google promotion]

Glad to have spotted this. I hadn’t really noticed the Google suggestion before, and I’ve hidden it and edited site texts today too.

Disable proposing Google Search on empty results

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Richie (Richie Rich) February 24, 2026, 8:13am 5

I’ve just applied this today, thank you

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Disable proposing Google Search on empty results

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