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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Try this: by elid · 2004-12-10 05:24 · Score: 5, Interesting

Type in g. Then type o. Then type o again. And again. Keep typing o's... Look what happens :-)
Crashes Konqeuror? by Shaman · 2004-12-10 05:25 · Score: 5, Informative

Not mine. Worked like a charm. Version 3.3.2 on Gentoo Linux 64bit

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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?

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The ABCs of Google Complete by Hatta · 2004-12-10 05:34 · Score: 5, Interesting

A is for Amazon
B is for Best Buy
C is for CNN
D is for Dictionary
E is for Ebay
F is for Firefox (yay!)
G is for Games
H is for Hotmail
I is for Ikea
J is for Jokes
K is for Kazaa
L is for Lyrics
M is for Mapquest
N is for News
O is for Online dictionary
P is for Paris Hilton (wtf?!)
Q is for Quotes
R is for Recipes
S is for Spybot
T is for Tara Reid
U is for Ups
V is for Verizon
W is for Weather
X is for Xbox
Y is for Yahoo
Z is for Zip Codes

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1. Re:The ABCs of Google Complete by dwvanstone · 2004-12-10 05:46 · Score: 5, Interesting
  
  Just to add to the list:
  
  1 is for 1
  2 is for 2004 election
  3 is for 3m
  4 is for 411
  5 is for 50 cent
  6 is for 60 minutes
  7 is for 7th heaven
  8 is for 89.com (as bad as Paris Hilton!!)
  9 is for 911
2. Re:The ABCs of Google Complete by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-10 05:54 · Score: 5, Interesting
  
  Explain THIS though:
  x : xbox
  xx: xxl
  xxx:
  
  p: paris hilton
  po: poems
  por: porsche
  porn:
  
  s: spybot
  se: sears
  sex:
  
  Somehow, I don't think these are based purely on search requests :)
Re:How is it so FAST!? by loconet · 2004-12-10 05:49 · Score: 5, Interesting

Everytime you type a letter, it requests a special modified version of the search tool which only returns the necessary javascript data.

check itout

Impressive

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Advertising potential? by gavint · 2004-12-10 06:01 · Score: 5, Interesting

Looks nice, but what happens when you type "the"?

"the incredibles"

Is anyone else seeing the advertising possibilities?