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:when will they get it? (Score:3, Interesting)
Instead of showing the possible results and its score as you type, I would rather it return the most probable exact single match.
Anyway, as I tried to type some of the terms I used to search for, they do not appear on the list.
So, it will be interesting to see how slow it might get if google is to index every single terms out there.
Re:when will they get it? (Score:4, Interesting)
how can i, personally, not think of a flash clip which protrayed the merge of google and amazon, to create googlezon, based on google's extensive grid engine. lets hope that wont be an accurate prediction, coz i dun wanna live in a world that has the rest of the world's information at their fingertips.
and it seems, google is on that path to 'immortality'.
SEO (Score:5, Interesting)
Other than that I can't think of a real use... I usually know what I want to search for on Google. It could help optimize queries I guess (see the "number" of results before hitting submit, but not the quality...)
Happy Holidays to all Slashdotters, by the way
Unexpected Ways (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Some words are censored ... (Score:1, Interesting)
Try:
Essex
Cockfosters
Scunthorpe
Re:Who searches for these things?? (Score:2, Interesting)
A - Amazon
B - Best Buy
C - CNN
D - Dictionary
E - eBay
F - FireFox
G - Games
H - Hotmail
I - Ikea
J - Jokes
K - Kazaa
L - Lyrics
M - Mapquest
N - News
O - Online Dictionary
P - Paris Hilton
Q - Quotes
R - Recipes
S - Spybot
T - Tara Reid
U - UPS
V - Verizon
W - Weather
X - XBox
Y - Yahoo
Z - Zip Codes
From this comment [slashdot.org], again credit given to to mrn121 [slashdot.org].
Re:Unexpected Ways (Score:1, Interesting)
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Re:Unexpected Ways (Score:3, Interesting)
Dictionary Suggest (Similar to Google Suggest) (Score:2, Interesting)