Windows 10 search bar pushing 'interests'

[Technyewb]

I already turned off news and interests from my Windows 10 task bar. 
Now this jus showed up in my Win10 search box. 

 

I just want to use my operating system, which I paid for. 
I DO NOT want some other person or algo communicating to me things 'they' thing I should read. Save that for your websites Microsoft. Stay the hell off my OS. 

Any idea how I turn this off? 

 

[BobVonBob]

You can turn off the dedicated search bar, then if you want to search you can press the Windows key and start typing. You'll see that screen for a split second, but then it will switch to search results.

 

A quick search didn't show a way to disable that panel specifically, or I searched the wrong thing.

[GoodBytes]

10 hours ago, Technyewb said:

I already turned off news and interests from my Windows 10 task bar. 
Now this jus showed up in my Win10 search box. 

 

I just want to use my operating system, which I paid for. 
I DO NOT want some other person or algo communicating to me things 'they' thing I should read. Save that for your websites Microsoft. Stay the hell off my OS. 

Any idea how I turn this off? 

 

Windows 10 and 11 search got updated recently.

Domain joined computer, will show documents and company/school wide shares.

 

Everyone else has a topic of the day, like Google and Bing does. This is to have a something instead of nothing, or the useless panel of before.

 

To turn if off you should have a setting under Windows 10 related to this. Probably under Search or Privacy.

 

Under Windows 11 it is under: Settings > Privacy & Security > Search Settings > Show search highlights (found as the last option as you scroll down)

[xxxink2]

Right click task bar -> Search -> uncheck "Show Search Highlights" and it will disappear.

[Technyewb]

5 hours ago, xxxink2 said:

Right click task bar -> Search -> uncheck "Show Search Highlights" and it will disappear.

That worked. 
Thanks so much.