Google is set to unveil Google Suggest
Google Suggest hits the homepage
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26 Aug 2008, Phil Muncaster , V3
Google has launched new functionality developed in its labs, which is designed to improve the accuracy and efficiency of searches.
Google Suggest, which will be available on the Google.com homepage, is an auto-suggest feature which could help users formulate queries by recommending the most popular options depending on what has already been typed.
According to a posting on GoogleBlog by product manager Jennifer Liu the feature started as a "20 per cent project" in 2004 and has subsequently been used in Google Labs, Toolbar, Firefox search box, Maps and web search for select countries, the iPhone, BlackBerry and YouTube.
Google Suggest could help users minimise spelling errors when typing in queries and saves time by reducing keystrokes, wrote Liu.
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Do you agree?
Google Suggest = Google Pest
I do NOT like pop-ups while I'm typing, even those intended to "help" me (and possibly steer me to ad-supported pages???). Other than turning off Javascript, there seems to be no way to disable this. A workaround is to use Google in another country. For English searches, you can use the Google websites in Canada (http://www.google.ca/), the U.K. (http://www.google.co.uk/) or many other sites outside the U.S.A., for example: American Samoa {http://www.google.as/} Cook Islands {http://www.google.co.ck/} Fiji {http://www.google.com.fj/} Gibraltar {http://www.google.com.gi/}, etc., etc. Or, you can just stop using Google, and when Google realizes this "feature" is driving people away from their site, I'll bet a turnoff feature will be implemented (there may be a way to turn it off now if you have the Google taskbar, but since I don't add extra taskbars, Google, Yahoo, eBay, or otherwise, I wouldn't know).
Posted by Al Priest, 26 Aug 2008