Google Suggest Dissected, Part II 148
Bert690 writes "To complement the recent dissection of Google
Suggest's innovative front end, I investigated [Coral Link & mirror]
the back end of the system in an effort to determine just how it generates suggestions. Along with some preliminary findings, you'll find a pointer to a program for enumerating all
possible suggestions from a given starting point. I found the number of possible suggestions to be surprisingly small considering the immense scope of the web."
Re:Eric Rice (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Funny (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Who searches for these things?? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Who searches for these things?? (Score:4, Informative)
Oftentimes I just punch just enough into the address bar to hit what I want, knowing that Firefox wanders off to google and does an "I'm feeling lucky" if it cannot resolve my input. ie, ipw2200 will always take me to ipw2200.sourceforge.net.
Just a thought.
Mined Query Logs (Score:1, Informative)
As others have noted, the top suggestion for p is paris hilton with 6.7M results, but the number of results for the next 5 suggestions contain far more results -- more than 20M, in fact.
I doubt there is much of an attempt at precision. For example, the first suggestion for "new york" is "new york times"; the second is "new york."
Re:when will they get it? (Score:3, Informative)
No point in doing extra programming to make the system as random as it already is.
Nielson Usability (Score:5, Informative)
found one use (Score:2, Informative)
The suggested words by themselves may not be all that useful,but when combined with the number of results shown for each keyword ,I think it can be useful.
Google suggest may not be immediately be of use to everyone like Google.com,but will rather be when a particular situation arises for the user.
I think its a specific need based solution.
First Suggestions (Score:2, Informative)
amazon
best buy
cnn
dictionary
ebay
firefox
games
hotma
ikea
jokes
kazaa
lyrics
mapquest
news
on
paris hilton
quotes
recipes
spybot
tara reid
ups
verizon
weather
xbox
yahoo
zip codes
1
2004 election
3m
411
50 cent
60 minutes
7th heaven
89.com
911
02
Small Perl script to get suggestions (Score:2, Informative)