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August 26, 2008

Google Suggest Becomes Search Default

The Official Google Blog has acknowledged that it will begin rolling out Google Suggest, which will let you formulate queries with more ease, reduce spelling errors, and save keystrokes. An example screenshot is below:

It's about time, but one wonders if this is happening because of Yahoo's success with Search Assist. While Google has had this technology for years, are they playing "catch up"?

In terms of SEO, there are concerns that this will affect long tail searches and those looking to capitalize on misspelled keywords. Only time will tell if this is indeed to be the case.

Forum discussion continues at WebmasterWorld.



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posted Tamar Weinberg in Google Search Engine at August 26, 2008 9:51 AM Comments (6)

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If I search, I know what I am looking for. No need all this candy lag stuff

 

Posted by Fav Browser at August 26, 2008 10:48

I think that this will be a benefit for older searchers, who are still not used to the keyword system used by google. It won't be a big deal to the Google Generation today though.

 

Posted by No Name at August 26, 2008 11:00

Could anybody please help me to understand why e. g. the expression - web analytics - shows 71,000,000 results in the suggestions, but 68,700,000 in the result's page? Rounding numbers is ok, but shouldn't the number of results be the same on the two pages?

 

Posted by Gert Mellak at August 26, 2008 12:19

Maybe its just me, but I like predictive text tools =)

 

Posted by Samreen Soomro at August 26, 2008 17:23

Gert who knows why they show the numbers in there in the first place. They are always changing anyways from datacenter to datacenter. So what I see as a total may not be what you see as a total. One thing I don’t understand about Google Suggest is why does Google list the # of total results next to the auto complete word? Does this help/hurt/influence the end searchers reason to use Suggest?

 

Posted by Jaan Kanellis at August 26, 2008 18:55

No switched on in the uk yet..

Not looking forward to this as it going to raise the comp on the suggested words grrrr

 

Posted by gabs at August 27, 2008 06:53

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