diff --git a/suggestions.go b/suggestions.go
index 88095fd..089ca8b 100644
--- a/suggestions.go
+++ b/suggestions.go
@@ -99,6 +99,9 @@ func handleSuggestions(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		}
 	}
 
+	// Trim the suggestions to a maximum of 8 items
+	suggestions = trimSuggestions(suggestions)
+
 	if len(suggestions) == 0 {
 		printErr("All suggestion services failed. Returning empty response.")
 	}
@@ -108,6 +111,14 @@ func handleSuggestions(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	fmt.Fprintf(w, `["",%s]`, toJSONStringArray(suggestions))
 }
 
+// trimSuggestions trims the suggestion list to a maximum of 8 suggestions.
+func trimSuggestions(suggestions []string) []string {
+	if len(suggestions) > 8 {
+		return suggestions[:8]
+	}
+	return suggestions
+}
+
 // updateLatency updates the latency of a suggestion source using an exponential moving average.
 func updateLatency(source *SuggestionSource, newLatency time.Duration) {
 	source.mu.Lock()
@@ -180,13 +191,6 @@ func fetchYahooSuggestions(query string) []string {
 // 	return fetchSuggestionsFromURL(url)
 // }
 
-// func fetchSogouSuggestions(query string) []string {
-// 	encodedQuery := url.QueryEscape(query)
-// 	url := fmt.Sprintf("https://w.sugg.sogou.com/sugg/ajaj_json.jsp?key=%s", encodedQuery)
-// 	printDebug("Fetching suggestions from Sogou: %s", url)
-// 	return fetchSuggestionsFromURL(url)
-// }
-
 func fetchSuggestionsFromURL(url string) []string {
 	resp, err := http.Get(url)
 	if err != nil {