SharePoint 2013 – Search Query Suggestions not working

If you find that query suggestions do not work in your SharePoint 2013 Search then here are a few things you can try.

Enable search suggestions

1. Log into Central Administration

2. Navigate to Manage Service Applications -> Search Service Application -> Query Suggestions

3. Tick the Enable search suggestions box

4. Click Save Settings

Enable the Prepare Query Suggestions timer job

1. Log into Central Administration

2. Navigate to Monitoring -> Review job definitions

3. Locate and click on the Prepare Query Suggestions job

4. Enable the job and click OK

By default, the timer job runs once daily so you can manually start it by using the Start-SPTimerJob cmdlet:

Start-SPTimerJob -Identity “Prepare Query Suggestions”