Launched in 2004 as part of Google Labs, Google Suggest is available in many interfaces and in some international Google sites:
* Google Labs
* Google Experimental Search
* Google Toolbar for IE and Firefox
* Firefox 2+ search box
* Google's homepage for iPhone
* Google China, Google Korea, Google Russia, Google India
* YouTube
You can even use the suggestions in your applications thanks to the unofficial JSON API:
http://www.google.com/complete/search?hl=en&client=suggest&json=t&jsonp=CALLBACK_FUNCTION&q=QUERY
Similar suggestion features are already available at Yahoo and Ask.com. Yahoo's suggestion feature called Search Assistant is more advanced as it displays popular queries that contain your keywords, not just queries that start with your text.
don't see here this feature for google.fr
ReplyDeleteIt's available in Google Taiwan (http://www.google.com.tw/) too.
ReplyDeleteI assumed everyone had that now. It always seems to be there when I google recently
ReplyDeleteIts in my google IG page.
ReplyDeleteDo you guys think its a good feature ? Probably. But can you "not" use it if you want too ? I mean isnt it changing the way of thinking (using google). Does it manipulate the way you find stuff ? Iam using it myself, i like how it speeds up my search. But maybe you loose many things not shown in the first 10 suggestions.
ReplyDeleteJust an idea,.
Nobody forces you to choose one of the suggested queries. You can simply ignore the suggestions and continue to type your query. There's also an option to disable the feature.
ReplyDeleteAndy Roberts suggests in an interesting video that this might change the way people search, but I don't think it will be a dramatic shift.
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