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Google News, now with Suggest(TM)
Okay, I'm kidding about the "TM" part (I think), but Google engineer Jon McAlister spent some of his 20% time to build a
Google Suggest-like interface into Google News,
providing you "with search suggestions specific to news in your country, in real time, while you type." So
this sort of Ajax trickery is much less impressive than it was back in 2004, but I think it's pretty handy for
expanding your news searches based on current events. Currently the suggest feature isn't active on the default Google
News home page and must be accessed by going to news.google.com/news?complete=1, and it only works for the U.S.
site.[Via Google Blogoscoped]
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They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
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Razib Ahmed said 8:13AM on 5-04-2006
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