Magento's search box display a rather horrid looking/ slow loading search suggest box underneath as you type a search.
Where is the best place in the code to remove this feature.
You could give either a try:
In Magento template’s css file, find:
.search auto-complete
and add:
display: none;
to get:
.search-autocomplete { display: none; }
You'll have to make sure your css gets refreshed.
OR
Look for this: \template\catalogsearch\form.mini.phtml
and remove or comment out the line containing:
searchForm.initAutocomplete(.......