Over the next week, Google will finally be implementing Google Suggest, its auto-complete for searches, on its homepage at Google.com. The service allows users to see the most commonly searched phrases after entering only a few letters, helping users cut back on typing time and check for spelling errors. If you’d like to try the service out now (it isn’t currently activated for everyone) you can find it here.
According to the company’s blog post, the feature has been a long time coming, and has made its way across much of the Google empire already:
“The Google Suggest feature originally started as a 20% project in 2004, and has since expanded to Google Labs, Toolbar, Firefox search box, Maps and Web Search for select countries, the iPhone and BlackBerry, YouTube, and now Google.com.”
Similar search autocomplete can be found on a number of major competitors, including Yahoo and recently-launched (and much hyped Cuil).
Haha, finally! :)
7 million results for one keyphrase search term.
just what we needed. whem are these companies gonna drop the baloney and cut to the chase.
Finally is right ;-)
This is about 4 years overdue.
still doesnt work for me
i had absolutely no idea it wasn’t already there. can’t remember the last time i didn’t use a toolbar.
So it’s basically going to allow what Firefox’s plugins have for a long time now..? Guess great news for IE users, I guess. Other than that… not sure if this is such a big deal. Am I wrong?
I believe it’s also good news for some international users. At least now when I start typing an English word using the Russian keyboard layout, it also suggests the correct term to me.
Hopefully I we can turn this on and off. Sometimes it can be a distraction. Like I need anymore distractions in my life. :-)
Awesome job catching up to Yahoo! Don’t worry, we’ve got some more cool things coming for you to copy soon. :)
Yahoo! Search is actually far superior to Google. The glue pages from India are game-changers. Too bad everyone has their head so far up their multi-colored Google ass that they’ll never see it.
So will we soon see ’sponsored’ auto-complete suggestions? Thats some very attractive keyword realestate right there.
Niiice one Vyrotek! lol
search for cuil …. Google suggestions is a direct hit to cuil hahahaha
a Yahoo! copycat
(I use ysearch, y! toolbar, y! mail, y! messenger, y! movies, my y!, and i don’t feel i am missing absolutely anything, on the contrary)
Most of us have been using suggest within the search bar of Firefox for years…
…and wouldn’t install any tracking tool bars from yahoo.
OK.. Ok everyone go back to the google suggest thing
Try typing in something dirty, like c*nt, or porn, or F**k. Once you hit the space key, or the word can no longer be the start of another word, it immediately closes the suggest box. For instance:
POR
suggestion: porsche
PORN
(then.. nothing)
So I suppose they don’t want to be too suggestive. I wonder if there will be a “Safe Search” for google suggest?
wweeeiirrrddd
The first thing I do when installing a new browser is make http://www.goog...ete=1&hl=en the homepage!
Long Long overdue. Had Yahoo spent more money increasing their search algorithm accompanied by beating google to the suggestion tool, shouldnt they have been able to stay closer in the search game? Polling over at tinycrunch.com
It’ll launch as a Beta, right?
I’m already seeing it on Google.com. Looks like they work quick.
Yahoo has been doing it better for years…
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http://www.city...d.asp?dq=Cities
I thought the same was avaialable from the first week of August .Since some of my friends seemed to have seen this from that time . And Yeah , i didn’t find the suggest option once i signed in igoogle. And hopoefully they have a on/off thingy ;)
Why even list Cuil as a competitor to Google?
google is copying yahoo!!! that strange!!!
does it comes with extra feature..i dont think so…..
Google’s suggest feature is not only late for primetime, it is much simpler than the competing offering from Yahoo! Google suggest appears to only do a simple string match on the keywords while Yahoo’s feature does a much sophisticated concept level match, which has more utility for users. Try searching for “olympics” on both engines and you will see the difference.
I think it will be interesting to see how this affects long-tail keywords. I think it’s kind of like putting up bumpers at a bowling alley, it keeps you from trying because it is so much hand holding. More thoughts here:
http://www.solo...st-changes-seo/
Live search implemented an Auto-Suggest feature last week and Yahoo has had it for a while now; I don’t see anything sensational about this. I just tried Google suggest and I’m not impressed at all. In my experience Live search tries a more contextual mapping and displays relevant suggestions depending on your query history and commonsense grouping. It seems Google ranks suggestions based on clicks rather than attempt any contextual processing or any other more sophisticated algo.
For example, I love travelling, so naturally I decided to search for vacation packages in Europe by typing “Europe”. Google suggest thinks I am looking for a map of the continent; Live pops “Europe vacation” and then “European union” as a top suggest and Yahoo thinks I’m looking for 1) Euro map or 2) the European Union. From a user standpoint (or at least my user standpoint) surprisingly Live search has the better user experience (the picture is a nice touch) and more relevant result. I was quite amazed to say the least.
Is the order of suggested phrases purely context/search matching, or will they be weighting it by clickthrough rates for ads on those phrases too? This would be more probable surely than ads within the search popup.
love the fact that when you type “2″, “2 girls 1 cup” is the third suggested item…
Wow. Things really move fast over at Google.
Or you coulda just had the firefox extension for it awhile ago…
Yahoo suggest is by far superior to Google’s – for example Y! will show you suggestions with your keyword anywhere – at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of phrases. This is very useful for keywords/keyphrases discovery process. Goog only show it at the beginning.
Although Goog’s another keyword tool – Goog insight beats everyone for sure.
Gleb
Useless Google feature which tells you how many sites have the keyword term in the title tag….
Four years wait for crap……………
Yea google great service – (Sarcastic reply intended)
I find this Suggest feature annoying 90% of the time. I know what I want to type. I don’t want the distraction of interacting with a dropdown box.
You can disable the Suggest feature by using this URL (so you don’t need to accept Google’s cookies to disable it):
http://www.goog...ebhp?complete=0
It’s also interesting to see the filtering that Google does. Type:
“microsoft sucks”
vs.
“google sucks”
and notice the 2nd one doesn’t get “suggested” even though “google sucks” has MORE hits that “microsoft sucks” ! Hmmmm….
Well .The same doesn’t work for me when i log into Igoogle .
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yahoo has been doing this for years, and why when goog launches something late (and that is worse than yahoo’s) it has so much PR? eh? techcrunch, do something to stop with the google adoration! :-)
This breaks the Google Search and I’m Feeling Lucky buttons.
THIS IS SO DAMN ANNOYING.
I wish Google had not turned it on by default. I HATE IT.
I really dislike this feature. I hope that more users express the same sentiments and it’s eventually disabled by default.
I hate it!
This is a very annoying addition, and should be turned OFF by default. It Sucks!
I’m not a novice. The AutoSuggest “feature” is extremely ANNOYING and the fact that it’s enabled by default is EXTREMELY ANNOYING. Where’s the google one-time, once-for-all checkbox that says “I’M NOT A NOVICE”. P.S. Google search is still only 20 results per page, no matter what settings you choose, after 8 years. That’s liberal google for you, poop stuff out, but don’t listen.
This feature is totally annoying and now it is enabled by default. If I wanted search help I would have used Google Suggest. HATE IT!
Worst feature ever!
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This Google suggest feature is terrible. Im old school,and I do not like the way my search tools develop a mind of their own, and start working differently than the way they did yesterday. I had to spend several hours getting to the bottom of what happened, and Google, I am not amused.
I am going to phase out Google as a standard search engine, on the 20 plus PCs I control, as soon as I find something better, and does not have to change all the time to suit some programmers whim. This is not what the market wants.