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Google Suggest Dissected, Part II
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."
On similar note.
Instead of showing the possible results and its score as you type, I would rather it return the most probable exact single match.
Anyway, as I tried to type some of the terms I used to search for, they do not appear on the list.
So, it will be interesting to see how slow it might get if google is to index every single terms out there.
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apparently google has better programmers and engineers than most tech companies. it is not only the interesting concepts that they publish, but the courage to invest and experiment thins that are others dare not or rather, they think of as time-consuming.
how can i, personally, not think of a flash clip which protrayed the merge of google and amazon, to create googlezon, based on google's extensive grid engine. lets hope that wont be an accurate prediction, coz i dun wanna live in a world that has the rest of the world's information at their fingertips.
and it seems, google is on that path to 'immortality'.
Often we do not have time for our friends, yet all the time in the world for our enemies.
If you're interested in Search Engine Optimization, the tool can be used like the Overture Keyword Selector Tool. Similar results are obtained with both, which is interesting all in itself. A guy built an interface similar to Overture to use with Google Suggest.
:)
Other than that I can't think of a real use... I usually know what I want to search for on Google. It could help optimize queries I guess (see the "number" of results before hitting submit, but not the quality...)
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I like trying to use Google Suggest in unexpected ways: Try typing in 1ZE and see all the UPS tracking numbers that come up. Pick one and track it. Or try typing an area code with a large population (201, 212, 213, 818, etc) and maybe add a digit or two and see what telephone numbers people have been searching for lately.
True... I tried searching for legit place names in the UK (which happen to contain expletives) and it stopped suggesting.
...etc...
Try:
Essex
Cockfosters
Scunthorpe
Here's a complete list (credit given to mrn121):
A - Amazon
B - Best Buy
C - CNN
D - Dictionary
E - eBay
F - FireFox
G - Games
H - Hotmail
I - Ikea
J - Jokes
K - Kazaa
L - Lyrics
M - Mapquest
N - News
O - Online Dictionary
P - Paris Hilton
Q - Quotes
R - Recipes
S - Spybot
T - Tara Reid
U - UPS
V - Verizon
W - Weather
X - XBox
Y - Yahoo
Z - Zip Codes
From this comment, again credit given to to mrn121.
Hi guys, I just finished implementing Google suggest for a dictionary database. http://www.objectgraph.com/dictionary The code is clean and you could see it by using "View Source" The dictionary database is on an SQL server (total of 18000+ words) with an index on the word column.