Google Suggests Finally…
After spending quite a lot of time in labs, finally google suggest has rolled out at google. I always wondered why google didn’t played and allowed others to play with suggest earlier. I understand there is no space available to mark the feature as beta. But as any other Google product, it can and will always improve, no matter if it is marked Beta or now.
Anyways finally it is here. Firsts thing first. It works only at “google.com”. Make sure you direct all your “co.in”s and “co.uk”s to “com”.
Why Google Suggest? Lemme hear it from the makers themselves:
“We find that by providing suggestions upfront, we can help people search more efficiently and conveniently. Below are some great ways Google Suggest can help simplify your searching.
- Help formulate queries: Instead of just typing [hotels in washington] - did you want [hotels in washington dc] or [hotels in washington state]? Don’t remember that song title or person’s name? Let Google help you search (and yes, I ended up choosing “From This Moment” as our wedding song).
- Reduce spelling errors: Since suggestions are spell-corrected using the same “Did you mean?” feature that offers alternative spellings for your query after you search, misspellings and typos can be corrected ahead of time. Instead of wasting your time with a misspelled query like [new yrok times] or [tomorow never dies], search the first time with the correctly-spelled query.
- Saves keystrokes: Who wants to spend their time typing [san francisco chronicle] when you can just type in “san f…” and choose the suggestion right away?”
Source: Google Official Blog
Am now trying to figure the benefits of this nice little feature for myself. Will update the post soon. Though am still awaiting that amazing product out from the Google team. Been long. Will say am looking forward to see the experimental/universal search out of labs onto Google search homepage in some awesome form.
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