{"id":33557,"date":"2021-04-06T15:16:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T15:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=33557"},"modified":"2021-04-06T15:16:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T15:16:15","slug":"google-suggestions-system-search-ubuntu-20-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2021\/04\/google-suggestions-system-search-ubuntu-20-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Add Google Suggestions to System Search in Ubuntu 20.04 via Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/gnome-icon250.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-33105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/gnome-icon250.png 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/gnome-icon250-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Want to get Google search suggestions in your system search results? There&#8217;s now an extension to enable the feature in Gnome Desktop.<\/p>\n<p>Google Search Provider is the extension inspired by <a href=\"https:\/\/extensions.gnome.org\/extension\/3306\/duckduckgo-search-provider\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DuckDuckGo Search Provider<\/a>. With it, typing any keyword in the Activities overview or &#8216;Show Applications&#8217; search box will display Google search suggestions. And you can click to open the result in your favorite web browser.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/google-search-gnome.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"260\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33558\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install the Extension in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The Gnome Shell extension so far supports Gnome 3.36 &#038; 3.38, so it should work in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10, and the upcoming Ubuntu 21.04.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.)<\/b> Firstly open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to install the <i>chrome-gnome-shell<\/i> package if you don&#8217;t have it:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt install chrome-gnome-shell<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/chrome-gshell.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"139\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/chrome-gshell.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/chrome-gshell-450x104.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.)<\/b> Next <a href=\"https:\/\/extensions.gnome.org\/extension\/4132\/google-search-provider\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">go to the extension web page<\/a> in web browser, and turn on the toggle icon to install it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/gsearch-provider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"379\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33559\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t see the toggle icon, click the link &#8220;Click here to install browser extension&#8221; and refresh the web page afterward.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/gnome-browser-extension.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"256\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/gnome-browser-extension.png 520w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/gnome-browser-extension-450x222.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Uninstall Gnome Shell Extension<\/h4>\n<p> To remove the extension, either go to the web page again or use <b>Extensions<\/b> tool, which can be installed via <code style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension-prefs<\/code> command.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/remove-gsearch-provider.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"317\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33560\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to get Google search suggestions in your system search results? There&#8217;s now an extension to enable the feature in Gnome Desktop. Google Search Provider is the extension inspired by DuckDuckGo Search Provider. With it, typing any keyword in the Activities overview or &#8216;Show Applications&#8217; search box will display Google search suggestions. And you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[689],"class_list":["post-33557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-gnome"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}