Suppress Search | drupal.org

Suppress Search allows site administrators to remove all core search functionality while still leaving the core search module enabled. Many alternate search implementations (such as Solr) rely on core search for some of their functionality. However when core search is enabled, a variety of functionality comes along with it that is not necessarily useful when an alternate search engine is being used. This includes

• Content and User search tabs appearing on the search result page.
• Content is indexed regardless of whether you are using core search or not (you can change how quickly it is indexed, but not stop it from being indexed.)
• The core search form is tied to core search and requires a custom module to be changed to another search engine.

This module provides an admin interface to address these issues. It also adds the option '0' to the core search form options asking how many pieces of content to index per cron run, allowing you to enable core search without indexing any content.

Suppress Search duplicates some of the functionality of the Core searches module, but that module requires applying a core patch whereas Suppress Search does not. However Core searches will reduce your installation's code weight by removing unused code, wherease Suppress Search simply denies access to this code.