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Google Suggest coming this week

Google Suggest
You may have encountered Google Suggest in Google News in the past few months and if you haven't already, you're about to start seeing it in your search box as well.

Google Suggest is movin' on up from Google Labs onto the Google homepage in increments this week. If you haven't seen it yet, you will.

According to Google this should help you:
  • enter more specific search criteria quickly
  • reduce the chance of spelling errors
  • save keystrokes
  • be annoyed with Google yet again
I guess it might be cool, though it only saved me two keystrokes when I was googling Download Squad. And I think I can type in my search criteria more quickly than I can type part of it and read a list, type some more to see more choices and on and on. But, who knows, maybe I might like it. Like Mikey and his cereal.

[Via Lifehacker]

Filed under: Google, Yahoo!, Search

Yahoo! adds new suggest search feature

Yahoo! Suggest
Yahoo! has added suggestions to its search bar. In other words, as you type your query, Yahoo! will pull up several possible suggestions. Scroll your mouse over the word and save yourself some valuable typing time. This also comes in handy if you have horrible spelling.

The new search function is almost identical to Google's, with two exceptions. Google Suggest is only available through Google Labs, and Google Suggest shows you how many results are associated with each search term.

Google Blogoscoped also has a nice little chart showing the different suggestions Google and Yahoo! offered for identical search terms. Both services look pretty useful, but Yahoo! often wasted a little space by offering you the same word you'd already entered in the search box.

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