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Google Suggest Dissected

Posted by michael on from the rated-r-for-responsive dept.

sammykrupa writes "Google suggest Javascript code dissected and rewritten for all of you web developers out there. Cool piece of web reverse-engineering!" Joel Spolsky astutely notes that this will raise the bar in terms of how people expect the "internets" to work.

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  1. Re:Google Suggest just isn't very useful by ZB+Mowrey · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    I mean, if you're searching for something specific, how is Google suggest going to help you?

    IDNRTFA (I Did Not Read The F**king Article), but a few examples:

    Joe User needs a device driver for his sound card. He isn't an 18th-level Googlesearcher*, so he types "sound card driver".

    A typical search engine would give him 2^Onebignumber results, all of which look pretty foreign to him.

    Google Suggest, on the other hand, intelligently points out the Windows Update** website, where he sees that he can update his device drivers from a recognized source. He does so, and all of his world's problems disappear for about 2^1 nanoseconds.

    At least, that's the way I think Google wants to make Suggest work...

    The thing that will sink this is when Google starts offering advertisers the ability to be suggested.

    *Acquired by spending long years under the apprenticeship of a slave-driving task master. **Joe User is not a free software user. Yet.

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