How to disable chome's "Search GitHub" feature?

Question

Every time I start typing "git ...", the chrome search bar changes into a github specific search (check out above image link). Say I want to search "git commit hooks". Immediately after typing "git ", the address bar changes and search is now restricted to the github domain. That's not what I want.

How do I disable this?

I have looked at all of my extensions, and none of them seem to be causing it. The behaviour extends into the incognito mode. Is this a default chrome behaviour or is it some other software that I installed?

Thanks for any tips.

Answer 1

This is a 'custom search engine'.

Go in to Settings, Search, then Manage search engines, then scroll down to find and remove Github.

Note that in my config (which is default) the search is triggered by github.com not just git - so you could just set the hotword back to that and it would be less intrusive.