Disable proposing Google Search on empty results

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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?

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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:

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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.

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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.”

  1. for users who cannot start a new topic ↩︎

  2. for users who can start a new topic ↩︎

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