Google Offers Suggest In Search

By Digital Trends Staff Updated October 25, 2009

Google Offers Suggest In Search

Go to Google’s homepage and you’re going to see something new from Google Labs.

Google Suggest is a new feature in search, although the company has already employed it in many other areas.

It’s designed to make queries more efficient and accurate by offering suggestions based on what a user has already typed, offering recommendations from the most popular search options for the term.

According to a blog from Google product manager Jennifer Liu, the feature can reduce spelling errors and help formulate queries. She wrote:

“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.”

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