Google Suggest

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Posted by michael on Friday December 10, 2004 @05:21AM from the freedom-to-innovate dept.

Cristiano writes "As you type into the search box, Google Suggest guesses what you're typing and offers suggestions in real time. This is similar to Google's 'Did you mean?' feature that offers alternative spellings for your query after you search, except that it works in real time." It crashes Konqueror, but works nicely on Mozilla. Update: 12/11 by J : The engineer who thought of it, then built it in his "20% time," blogs about the process.

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/. Spelling by Zorilla · 2004-12-10 05:22 · Score: 3, Funny

> loose

Google ------ Did you mean: lose?

Yeah, Slashdot needs this badly.

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1. Re:/. Spelling by MillionthMonkey · 2004-12-10 05:25 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  When I type "loose" it doesn't suggest "lose".
  
  It does suggest "loose women".
2. Re:/. Spelling by RobertB-DC · 2004-12-10 05:30 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  When I type "loose" it doesn't suggest "lose".
  
  It does suggest "loose women".
  
  It also suggests "loose weight". I can't believe how many web sites there are devoted to loosing weight. I guess that's the origin of the term, "to throw your weight around" -- so many people loosing it, and throwing weight will certainly loose it. What a bunch of loosers.
  
  (and looking at that paragraph long enough makes me wonder if I've loosed it, myself)
  
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Great.. by BossMC · 2004-12-10 05:24 · Score: 2, Funny

[ Niagra Falls ]
[Google Search] [I'm Feeling Lucky]

Did you mean viagra?
Is it any coincidence by Moth7 · 2004-12-10 05:25 · Score: 4, Funny

That when you enter "P", the first suggestion is "Paris Hilton"? I guess this just proves that porn really does drive every new technology ;-)
1. Re:Is it any coincidence by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-10 05:32 · Score: 0, Funny
  
  did it ever occure to you that it is possible that she has so many results there because she is a beautiful, clever, smart, and funny girl?
  i wish paris was my best friend, my best friend ever.
  
  (ps: you think you are so cute with your little wink at the end - fuck)
2. Re:Is it any coincidence by IdleTime · 2004-12-10 05:43 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  No, it just means that you are a porn freak!
  
  Their suggestions is ofcourse based on earlier interests shown from your ip. So when you type capital P, google knows that you are not intereste in Paris, France but Paris Hilton and no, it's not a hotel!
  
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3. Re:Is it any coincidence by SlayerofGods · 2004-12-10 05:46 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  did it ever occure to you that it is possible that she has so many results there because she is a beautiful, clever, smart, and funny girl?
  Nope
  
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4. Re:Is it any coincidence by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-10 06:22 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  It's a rather sad commentary on the state of human affairs, if yuo ask me.
  
  ... says the guy with the "penile percentile" signature ...
5. Re:Is it any coincidence by rizawbone · 2004-12-10 07:33 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  tara reid (who is that?)
  Usually people would reply to this qustion by saying 'google it'. The fact you were one click away from knowing everything about Tara Reid, imdb listing to botched boob job photos, puts you into a new class of laziness that can probably be detected from space.
  Congrats.
Suggest failed by SunPin · 2004-12-10 05:25 · Score: 2, Funny

I typed "tits" and it drew a blank.

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1. Re:Suggest failed by pete-classic · 2004-12-10 05:49 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Is English your second language? We, confusingly enough, put adjectives before the nouns they refer to.
  
  For example, the first suggestion for "pendulous" is "breasts."
  
  -Peter
All I want is SEX.... by ilikeitraw · 2004-12-10 05:26 · Score: 2, Funny

... and I get SEARS !? SEARS is not sexy. It is probably the extreme opposite.
Google needs to open there eyes and know that some people (mostly male I assume) need extremely quick "relevant" results when they are out of passwords, and ... eh... need extremely "quick" results.
1. Re:All I want is SEX.... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-10 05:33 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  ... and I get SEARS !? SEARS is not sexy. It is probably the extreme opposite.
  You young wipersnappers never had to whack off with the sears catalog, I see...
Re:Try this: by darth_MALL · 2004-12-10 05:26 · Score: 2, Funny

Try typing "mi". (saw this in an article)
Top 4 results:
Microsoft
miniclip
Michael Moore
miserable failure
No good... by Omicron32 · 2004-12-10 05:28 · Score: 2, Funny

Hmmm....

p -> paris hilton
po -> poems
por -> porsche

I'd say it's pretty obvious what I intend to search for. This thing is utterly useless. (Although, in it's favour, I must say the Paris Hilton first link was pretty good.) :)
Re:Cool! Just like form AutoComplete by mdf356 · 2004-12-10 05:33 · Score: 5, Funny

It's surviving a slashdotting. What more do you want?

Cheers,
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I can see it now by Timesprout · 2004-12-10 05:33 · Score: 4, Funny

"It looks like you are searching for lesbian porn, would you like some help with that?"

"It looks like you are searching for lesbian porn again, do you remember what I showed you last time?"

"I know, I know, Lesbian porn,and can you rate these pages so I can update my page index?"

"Hello freak, try these"

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Interesting Political Uses by ravenspear · 2004-12-10 05:50 · Score: 2, Funny

This was mentioned in another story last night but I thought it was funny.

If you go to the page and type "George Bush is a" you get some interesting suggestions. ;)
Re:The ABCs of Google Complete by Zorilla · 2004-12-10 05:51 · Score: 2, Funny

Quick! Somebody do Kanji now!

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Re:Try this: by damgx · 2004-12-10 06:03 · Score: 2, Funny

Hum, the scary part is a search like this: goooooogle

Gives:
Did you mean: goooooooogle

Yes, that is it. Google is spelled with 8 O's silly me.

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Slash... by fishbulb- · 2004-12-10 06:13 · Score: 2, Funny

5 letters into 'slashdot' --- here I am reading slash fanfiction. This is just diverting me from my original goal. I - ooh, Kirk & Spock?! brb...
Yippee! A new source of amusement! by slcdb · 2004-12-10 06:40 · Score: 4, Funny

I got a real kick out of some of the suggestions.

my cat: ... hates you ... breath smells like cat food ... hates me ... is an alien

my girlfried:
(No suggestions, obviously Google is run by a pack of lonely nerds).

my boyfriend: ... is gay ... sucks ... cheated on me ... hates me ... dumped me
(Okay, make that an apparently gay pack of lonely nerds).

darth vader is: ... gay
(A delusional pack of gay nerds?)

Oh, the fun I'll have with this new toy when I'm bored at work.

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1. Re:Yippee! A new source of amusement! by Redshift · 2004-12-10 09:00 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  This really ....
  
  sucks (2,010,000)
  works (19,000,000)
  
  Proof that it's an upbeat world out there!
2. Re:Yippee! A new source of amusement! by mldqj · 2004-12-10 09:10 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  my girlfried:
  (No suggestions, obviously Google is run by a pack of lonely nerds).
  No, it's just because you misspelled girlfriend.
Re:I call foul: CENSORSHIP by recursiv · 2004-12-10 07:02 · Score: 3, Funny

I agree with your conclusion, but I just had to stop and point out that you don't condone one-handed sex searching. Hilarious!

Careful though, some pervs our there might think you were talking about wanking, jagging, or otherwise masturbating. (Horrors!) They might not get your true message about amputees.

I keed, I keed. I was just very amused with puritanical way you approached the subject, and that you went the extra step not to condone it.

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In a later report..... by ARRRLovin · 2004-12-10 08:04 · Score: 2, Funny

...Google suggestion is renamed to "Skynet" by the company that acquired Google, Cyberdyne systems. Skynet is said to be fully operational. Soon it will become "aware".

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Try this: by AEton · 2004-12-10 08:38 · Score: 3, Funny

Type in g. Then type o. Then type a. Then type t. Aiyeee! I just wanted goat feeding instructions!

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Re:Why they probably block searches containing "se by 5n3ak3rp1mp · 2004-12-10 08:54 · Score: 2, Funny

I just posted that from work. I'm such an idiot