Fri 29 Aug 2008
Finally, Google launches Google Suggest on it’s main page
Posted by Bashar under Technology
After years of Lab testing, and inclusion in some search plugins like Google Firefox Search plugin, allowing major competitors to go fully live before them, Google finally released their Google Suggest autocompletion feature on their main page, and I guess there would be so many people who didn’t know it existed several years back.
I have been trying it for long time and it was doing great. So my two wild guesses as to why Google kept it in labs for so long are:
1- Google was afraid of increased load from the service usage, as it’s automatically querying for suggestions.
2- Google for some reason did not think it’s very useful and needs that much attention (I doubt it!)
Anyways, now it’s here. Go and enjoy it, if you haven’t been already for years.
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August 29th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
its awesome and saves time too
sometime a3assib etha Yahoo! replied with “Did you mean” LOL I think of it as personal for some reason :-P
August 29th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Ansam: Yeah, a lot of time. But I take the Did you mean for good cause really. Becomes so helpful as well.
August 29th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
It’s a great feature but I for one won’t be depending on it. Most times I irrationally enter a long query. This feature will either give or take a few seconds depending on whether I’m going to look for my query between the results or finishing it myself.
August 30th, 2008 at 2:51 am
google is always cool, thanks for the heads-up.
August 30th, 2008 at 5:19 am
MacaholiQ8: I understand your point.
The Talker: When it comes to search, they are :)
August 30th, 2008 at 9:48 am
LOL bashar… for some reason when I read “did you mean” I read it with an attitude! LOL dont ask me why!
August 30th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Ansam: Yeah I know what you mean. Like having someone besides you thinking he knows better :)