Disable Google Chrome’s Search/Prediction Services

If you’ve grown annoyed with how Google Chrome tries to rush ahead of you in trying to figure out where you might be trying to go when you type something directly into its address bar, you can turn it off if you’d like, here’s how.
Open Google Chrome, then click on Wrench

On the dropdown menu, click on Options…

…then, on the Options screen,  click Under the Hood, to get this screen:

Under the privacy section, there is an option called “Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar. By default, there is a check in that box, to make Google Chrome stop using this service, simply uncheck the box.
You’d think that would be it, unfortunately, it’s not, in order to get Chrome to stop offering suggestion, you also need to clean out your history file, which might be something you’d rather not do.
At any rate, if you’re not yet familiar with how to get rid of your history with Chrome, click the Wrench again, but this time, click on History:

Then, click where it says Edit items… on the fright right side of the screen:

…then click on Clear all browsing data…

…doing so will bring up this popup:

Choose your timeframe from the dropdown menu (the beginning of time is best to get rid of anything that might popup when you’re typing in your web page) and which things you’d like to have cleaned out, and then click the Clear browsing data button at the bottom.
Note: In order to prevent Chrome from showing you what it has in the address window when you try to type in an address, you need to check Clear browsing history on the popup menu.
To see the difference in enabling/disabling the prediction service, here is what we get when we type in the world “president” with enabling turned on:

And here is what we get after we turn it off and clear our history:

If you’d like to learn more about how the prediction suggestion service with Chrome works, you can click on the Learn More link, on the Under the Hood option, to get this screen:

And then again where it says, Learn more about the address bar prediction service.

If you read all this stuff you’ll find yet another reason you might want to disable the prediction service, and that is because it helps Google keep track of your destination sites, something you might not want Google doing.