Media News - Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Google adds suggestion ability to its Web site query line
Google has launched Suggest, a search feature that offers query suggestions as the user types in the search field. A full year after Yahoo's Search Assist was launched, Google has its own brand for a very similarly behaving predictive text search tool. Granted, the Google Toolbar already had a similar feature, and it has existed in Google Labs for a considerable period of time, but it is now a default feature on Google's main page. Suggestions are based upon query popularity, so when the smallest amount of input is entered in the search bar, the most popular terms are yielded. As more variables are entered, the more specific the suggestions become. On the official Google blog Tuesday, Suggest is touted as a feature that would come in especially handy when trying to find the artist and song title based only upon lyrics heard. (Beta News)
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