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How can I make Chrome prefer my history over what seems to be paid results?

Not now nor have I ever been interested in General Motors.

I just want to confidently type "gm", hit Enter, and go to gmail.

I've tried:

  • Cleared my browser history of all non-gmail entries of "gm"
  • Adding GMAIL as a bookmark
  • It's even in my top sites on a new tab

To note, I have plenty of other frequented sites which get suggested first no problem.

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  • Why don't you define gmail as bookmark ?
    – harrymc
    Commented Jul 25, 2023 at 19:58
  • @harrymc I did, doesn't work. Sorry, I forgot to add that to my question.
    – MonkeyZeus
    Commented Jul 25, 2023 at 20:00
  • Of course it does work. Just position to it and press Ctrl+D.
    – harrymc
    Commented Jul 25, 2023 at 20:03
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    In chrome://flags/ there are about 40 poorly documented omnibox options, but perhaps one of them does something useful. If you dont find one, in chrome://settings/searchEngines there is "Site search" where there is a shortcut @bookmarks for searching within bookmarks. Edit this to just "b" then you can enter in omnibox: "b gm".
    – meuh
    Commented Jul 26, 2023 at 7:32
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    In chrome://omnibox/ you get an omnibox which shows you the list of things to list, but also why it chose them. It might provide a clue.
    – meuh
    Commented Jul 26, 2023 at 7:45

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Per meuh's comment to use chrome://omnibox/ I was able to uncover this:

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Hovering the df column reveals the following description:

Can be Default
A green checkmark indicates that the result can be the default match (i.e., can be the match that pressing enter in the omnibox navigates to).

If I am understanding the screen properly, then even though there is a high Relevance score, 1399, the result is not allowed to be present when I hit Enter

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