Google Search Has a Suggestion for You

• Author: admin
• Filed under: Tech News
• Date: Aug 26,2008

Late Monday Google announced that one of its current Google Lab projects, Google Suggest, would start appearing on the main Google search page, rolled out in their typically gradual fashion worldwide, starting this week.

This type of suggestion feature has been available on Yahoo! and Cuil for some time.

In their blog post announcing the move, Google said::

The Google Suggest feature originally started as a 20% project in 2004, and has since expanded to Google Labs, Toolbar, Firefox search box, Maps and Web Search for select countries, the iPhone and BlackBerry, YouTube, and now Google.com.

If you can’t access the feature yet on your Google search page, you can try it out here. You can also see a screenshot above. Google touts the feature as having the following advantages:

• Helps formulate queries
• Reduces spelling errors
• Saves keystrokes

But there’s also this other reason: for once we had to play catchup, and since it’s been in testing for some time, let’s roll it out.