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How to hide products from search results in Magento
If you don't want a product to be listed when a customer performs a relevant search by using the search function on the frontend of your Magento site, you can do that by changing the visibility settings of the particular product.
To do this, log in to the admin panel of your Magento, go to Catalog menu>Manage Products and select the product that you want to edit from the table with the existing products in your catalog. On the page with the general settings of that product (displayed by clicking on the General button on the left) find the drop-down menu labeled Visibility and set it to Catalog. Then click on the Save or on the Save and Continue Edit button. In this way the product will be visible in the catalog on the frontend, but it will not be shown in search results.