Not quite sure what you need to search for on Google? Maybe you can't remember how to spell it. The online search giant has added a predictive search function to its main page that will provide suggestions as you type in a search query.
"We find that by providing suggestions upfront, we can help people search more efficiently and conveniently," Jennifer Liu, Google product manager, wrote in a blog post.
Google first started experimenting with predictive search in 2004 with Google Suggest. It 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, Liu wrote.
Typing in "pc mag" into Google, for example, will produce a drop-down menu featuring results for PC Magazine, the magazine's Editor's Choice, subscription options, and top 100 Web sites, as well as an estimate as to how many search returns each query will return.
PC Magazine? 35.5 million. My name? 17,900. I have some catching up to do.
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