This restarted the related services and everything's back to normal now.Īlso to note, even though I went through the Indexing option in the control panel to get there, it's not really an indexing issue, as I don't use indexing (I don't have any indexing locations listed in step 2 above). Select 'Files don't appear in my search results' and click Next Step 3 Now, instead of tapping Clear cache, tap on Clear data. Step 2 Now find Google Play Store and open it. Step 1 Like the previous method, head towards the settings and then find Apps. What it does is that when you type the search term in the search box in the new tab page, it will redirect you to the address bar, which uses the browser’s default search engine. For this solution, use the following method step by step. So to make things a bit more consistently, I’d recommend to enable and set the Configure the new tab page search box experience policy to Address bar. I finally got it working again by doing the following:Ĭlick the Troubleshoot Search and Indexing link This will also fix the Google Play store not working issue. I tried all of the possible fixes listed in this thread and the problem persisted. But I was just getting the default 'Search my stuff' result and clicking on that just gave me 'Something went wrong.' This is what you need to make google search work basically this is because google expects q as the name. i have to click in the search box before the cursor starts to work. i don't understand how a cursor can appear activated without actually working. No suggestions or autocompletes, unless it finds and old address from my history that matches. Put the cursor in it, get ready to type, and BAM, I'm now typing in the adress bar which gives me nothing search wise. If the above doesnt work, try opening taskbar settings. With the latest update, when ever I open a new tab / page, the Google search box in the middle of the screen doesn't do anything. If your search bar is hidden and you want it to show on the taskbar, press and hold (or right-click) the taskbar and select Search > Show search box.

i know I am not the only one with this problem, but I have not seen a solution. To hide your search box, press and hold (or right-click) the taskbar and select Search > Hidden. The other problem I found is that clicking on the 5th ot 6th search result doesnt take me to the webpage, instead it bring me back to the top. Normally if I typed 'sound' it would show various sound settings. I asked this question on the Google forum but was directed to the Mozilla forum. My problem was that the search menu would pop up, but it wouldn't find anything. Just to add another possible solution in case it helps anyone.

Google search box not working