How do I disable the yahoo search suggestions?

Helen, your answer is for Yahoo! Toolbar.

It is doing it for the homepage now. By default. And, as mentioned, you cannot permanently disable it as of right now.

I am sure it is supposed to be helpful, but I just find it annoying. The new home page focusing on large pictures of Britney Spears and/or American Idol instead of real news was bad. The news links often leading to worthless 4 minute long videos instead of an article you can read in 30 seconds was bad. The new menu system that works via mouse-over yet snaps back when you mouse away, causing the website to constantly reset as you accidentally mouse over the hotspot was bad.

This is just worse.

My answer: switch to Google. I think this is the straw that has broken my back. Yahoo is catering to the dumbed-down masses rather than its old userbase. Good for business, perhaps, but the old method sure hasn't hurt Google, while this method sure has hurt ask.com, excite.com, altavista.com, etc.

Making Yahoo! less professional and more High School is bad.

Yahoo really, really needs to reconsider its recent changes. Yes, I know, I sound unwilling to change, but these changes are frustrating, not helpful. They hinder rather than assist.

Equally annoyed here and then you go to Yahoo "help" and it says download the stupid toolbar to go to options to disable it and you get a toolbar adn there's no selection on there for THAT! What is this? YAHOO - you should leave well enough alone!!!! Or let people use it IF they want to !!!! Or leave it disabled if someone TELLS it to be disabled.... even if we go to a different WEBsite and come back - NOT closing the browser - the stupid suggestion things comes back on!

I was able to disable it in IE by placing yahoo on my restricted list under internet options. The only problem is then it does not let you sign into yahoo because it blocks cookies.

1) Click on the Pencil Icon on the "bar thingy" at the top of the screen. XD *Sorry, don't know what that thingy is called..

2) Click where it says Toolbar Options.

3) Finally uncheck the Enable Recent Searches.

Hopes this helps! :D

Switch your homepage to My Yahoo.com, the search bar on it doesn't retain search suggestions.

I've got the same problem. I'll get back to you if I figure it out.