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Google Suggest Dissected, Part II

Posted by michael on from the kudos-for-correct-use-of-complement dept.

Bert690 writes "To complement the recent dissection of Google Suggest's innovative front end, I investigated [Coral Link & mirror] the back end of the system in an effort to determine just how it generates suggestions. Along with some preliminary findings, you'll find a pointer to a program for enumerating all possible suggestions from a given starting point. I found the number of possible suggestions to be surprisingly small considering the immense scope of the web."

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  1. Re:Don't think so... by One+Childish+N00b · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Going by that, entering 'B' would bring up Brittney Spears, while in reality, it brings up Best Buy...

    you made a misspelling in your post. There's only one T in 'Odious Fame Slut'.

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