On: See the things you’ve searched for, visited, and watched on Google services

[nostrademons]

You're looking for Verbatim Mode:

https://www.google.com/search?q=beer&tbs=li:1

[mholmes680 → nostrademons]

wow, you just fixed everything that i thought was wrong with google. thank you.

[daurnimator → nostrademons]

Awesome! Is there a way I can make this the default?

[nostrademons → daurnimator]

You can't do it for all Google, but if you use Chrome, you can set it as the Omnibox default. Go to Menu -> Settings -> Search -> Manage Search Engines, then add a new row at the bottom that says "Google Verbatim", "verbatim", "https://www.google.com/search?tbs=li:1&q=%s", hit Done and click "Manage Search Engines" again, then find that row in the list above (alphabetical) and click "Make default". Now everything in the address bar uses verbatim search.

[rburhum → nostrademons]

this. Thank you!