Whenever I search for the meaning of a word, the suggestion "in hindi" and others appears on Google [closed]

Question

What the title says. For instance, searching on google.com/ncr (no country redirect):

I speak none of these languages. I'm searching for the meaning of an English word, using English terms, I expect answers in English. Leaving apart questions of why are these Google search suggestions so stupid (specially considering I never click any of them, I never open pages in these languages and I know Google still tracks this despite my best efforts, and it also knows I'm nowhere near India or Pakistan etc, but still it won't learn), what can I do to block these, apart from blocking search suggestions entirely by means of an ad blocker?

I've seen a very similar, almost duplicate question (Remove Google Search suggestions) but that one asks about Chrome's omnibox and is also open to other languages that the OP is familiar with. I'm personally not interested in any language other than the one I'm using to write the search query in.

Answer 1

These are predictions of Google Search algorithm based on rank (frequency of global searches) and all you can do at this moment (apart of Adblocking them) is to report them back like:

As for the reason why all of them are languages spoken in India - with a population of over 1.4 billion people India has no national language. The Constitution of India designates 22 official languages (out of 60!). These are:

| Assamese    | ~  15.30 million |
| Bengali     | ~  97.20 million |
| Bodo        | ~   1.48 million |
| Dogri       | ~   2.60 million |
| Gujarati    | ~  55.50 million |
| Hindi       | ~ 528.50 million |
| Kannada     | ~  43.70 million |
| Kashmiri    | ~   6.80 million |
| Konkani     | ~   2.25 million |
| Maithili    | ~  13.60 million |
| Malayalam   | ~  34.80 million |
| Manipuri    | ~   1.80 million |
| Marathi     | ~  83.10 million |
| Nepali      | ~   2.90 million |
| Odia        | ~  37.50 million |
| Punjabi     | ~  33.10 million |
| Sanskrit    | ~   0.02 million |
| Santali     | ~   7.30 million |
| Sindhi      | ~   2.70 million |
| Tamil       | ~  69.10 million |
| Telugu      | ~  81.10 million |
| Urdu        | ~  50.70 million |
| and English | ~ 125.62 million |

Applying simple math to it, there is a lot of millions of people searching daily for word meanings especially when some of these languages are nothing alike (meaning wise - in all meanings).

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/i

Answer 2

When looking up meanings I type e.g. "alacrity def" instead of "alacrity meaning". Google completes it to "alacrity definition" and doesn't give me suggestions to translate it into languages.

Answer 3

What can I do to block these, apart from blocking search suggestions entirely by means of an ad blocker?

Block them with a prefix if you are doing a bunch of similar searches, or a suffix if you want to see what comes up prior to blocking. This disables alternative language suggestions:

Notice that prefixing or suffixing your terms still offers suffixed suggestions. The shortest term you can use seems to be: "Engl something meaning", if you need more room on the input line, but it results in the same output line length.

Answer 4

Getting a bit semantic, but the grammatical phrasing of your query is mostly to blame. See, the meaning of a word does not change when it is spoken in another language. "Equipo" and "Team" both mean the same thing. What you want to know is "how to say it in ____". And since Google realizes you don't have to type out "how to say it" every time, they make it easy to query that in as few characters as possible. Your query should be: [WORD]+in+[space].

Of course, certain terms like "chilaquiles", "research", or "program" will predict results like in chili in a crockpot, in psychology, in Python, rather than spoken languages, but you get the idea. OS X 10.14.4

Chrome Version 74.0.3729.157 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Answer 5

For the time being, I came up with the following adblock rule:

www.google.com##.erkvQe > li.sbct:has-text(/\S+ meaning in \w+$/)

It's a little fragile, as the navigation keys up/down still picks the suggestions, and search suggestions having the string "meaning in " followed/ending with an word other than a language name will be hidden - e.g. resistance meaning in english will be (correctly) hidden, but resistance meaning in engineering or resistance meaning in electronics will also be, and that may be undesired.

But for me at least, this will do fine.

Demo:

References:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Procedural-cosmetic-filters
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax
https://www.rexegg.com/regex-quickstart.html