google suggest

http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en

and a faq is here: http://labs.google.com/suggest/faq.html

interesting new thing. I wonder what sort of impact it'd have it was implimented in the main google homepage

 

it may be more helpful for newbies and researchers.

 

It may be helpful for anyone...

I love the fact that the number of pages indexed for that term is shown up too.

 

I like the look of it but not sure if I'd want to use it by default.

Could this be used used as a google keyword suggestion tool?

 

I think this will put more importance on some keywords, (ie. the one that show up at the top when typing generic terms) and yes this could be somewhat like a keyword suggestion tool.

But is it customized for each person (ie. it knows what you searched before and suggests?) or does it show the same suggestions for all?

Test:
When I Type in "wireless" Google Suggests, in order;
wireless internet
wireless router
wireless speakers
wireless headphones
wireless networking
wireless network
wireless broadband
wireless routers
...

Do you get the same?

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When I type in wireless on the Overture Suggestion tool it suggests these;

wireless service
verizon wireless
att wireless
cingular wireless
wireless plan
wireless phone
wireless network
sprint wireless
wireless phone plan
nextel wireless
wireless internet
verizon wireless phone

That seems more brand name oriented.

 

same suggestions for everyone, I'm guessing.

in the faq they say they don't use your past search history etc to "guess" the keywords.

 

I like the tool, it tells me how competitive a keyword is quick and fast without having to type each occurence and search again.

 

Yeah I get the same. It does seem to show entries in a very similar order to the Overture keyword tool.

 

don't take those numbers as a sign of how competitive things are.

the number of results in the index is not an accurate sign of that at all

 

how come some URL's are included in the suggestions?

 

people type those into Google a lot.
apparently some people don't like to use the address bar.

 

I wonder what the ordering criteria are. Good find though, thanks.

 

From the FAQ: ..."For example, Google Suggest uses data about the overall popularity of various searches to help rank the refinements it offers..."



Cheers

 

Google Suggest FAQ ...
#2 says
That's pretty cool. How does it do that?
Our algorithms use a wide range of information to predict the queries users are most likely to want to see. For example, Google Suggest uses data about the overall popularity of various searches to help rank the refinements it offers. An example of this type of popularity information can be found in the Google Zeitgeist. Google Suggest does not base its suggestions on your personal search history.

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oops. you're too quick .. hehe

 

Thanks, I didn't take the small effort of reading up on the background of it.

 

Fascinating...this could be a big deal in the future.

Though nothing actually comes up if you type 'lemur ra...'

 

That suggestion page takes a lot longer than just typing into Google. Eliminates some of the misspellings though. It certainly also needs quite a few more base keyword combinations to come out of Beta. I wasn't terribly impressed as it wouldn't let me hold down the down arrow and scroll through them quickly.. Almost as if it were doing the search to find out how many results there were for the keyword I was on each time I pressed the down button.

 

Since Google's beta products seem to stay in beta for a very, very long time, they'll probably get all the kinks worked out by the time it goes live. I look for it in about a year.

 

It is different from keyword suggestion tool, it show number of results, not number of search.

 

Interesting release in G's labs google suggestions.

http://labs.google.com/suggest/
On first view a nice nifty addition that suggest words and phrases when you start typing in your query.
It also gives an idea about how many results there are,
so from a visitors / user perspective in encourages to use more (precise) words.

I quite like it but haven't made up my mind if it can be manipulated and may restrict the queries we see via google to more mainstream or general acceptable queries.

This certainly has the power to reward smaller sites / pages with real content as it may well encourage users to hunt for these by altering the query before fiering it at G.

On second thougts it's a nice nifty tool to subtley educate users improve result presentation and actually lessen the demand on the engine as far fewer queries may be run and the impact of the ones may target far less resources.

So once this goes mainstream it's goodbye to searches on queries that throw up millions of results because even the lazy user will quickly adopt and be guided to use more precise queries.

http://labs.google.com/suggest/
M

PS 4 weeks until it's copied by the others????

PPS to get out of this mode just call google.com