As you type into the search box, Google Suggest guesses what you're typing and offers suggestions in real time. This is similar to Google's "Did you mean?" feature that offers alternative spellings for your query after you search, except that it works in real time. For example, if you type "bass," Google Suggest might offer a list of refinements that include "bass fishing" or "bass guitar." Similarly, if you type in only part of a word, like "progr," Google Suggest might offer you refinements like "programming," "programming languages," "progesterone," or "progressive." You can choose one by scrolling up or down the list with the arrow keys or mouse.
Our algorithms use a wide range of information to predict the queries users are most likely to want to see. For example, Google Suggest uses data about the overall popularity of various searches to help rank the refinements it offers. An example of this type of popularity information can be found in the Google Zeitgeist. Google Suggest does not base its suggestions on your personal search history.
By suggesting more refined searches up front, Google Suggest can make your searches more convenient and efficient by keeping you from having to reformulate your query. Google Suggest might offer suggestions that you will find novel or intriguing.
You can go directly to http://www.google.com, or type http://www.google.com into your browser's address field; either way, you'll be back using ordinary Google search without Google Suggest.
If Google Suggest comes on whenever you open a new browser window, it may be set as your home or start page. To set your start page back to http://www.google.com (or anything else) use your web browser's Options menu.
- In Internet Explorer, you can do this by first selecting Tools, then Internet Options. On the Internet Options menu, look for the Home Page section, find the Address: text box, and enter http://www.google.com. Then select OK.
- In FireFox, this menu is found under Tools, then Options.
- In Mozilla, it is found under Edit, then Preferences.
- In Opera, it is found under Edit, then Options.
You can set Google Suggest as your home page in your web browser's options, as described above.
Here are a few cases where we've found Google Suggest to be useful. As you find your own, please send them our way; knowing what our users find most useful is our most effective tool for improving our products.
| You type: | Google Suggest might offer: |
| "bass" | "bass guitar" "bass fishing" |
| "prog" | "programming" "programming languages" "progesterone" "progressive" |
| "duke" | "duke university" "dukes of hazzard" "duke nukem" "duke ellington" "duke power" |
We're not sure yet. But we're always interested in expanding our products into more languages, and hope to be able to offer you such services soon!
We love feedback. Please send your Google Suggest comments, criticisms and suggestions to us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- we always read every email our users send us.
Yes, your information is private. Google Suggest does not base its suggestions on your personal searches, although it does use information about the relative popularity of common searches to rank its suggestions. Your Google Suggest searches, like all the information you send to Google, are covered under Google's privacy policy.
Just as E.T.(TM) needs to phone home in order to get a spaceship to pick him up, Google Suggest needs to talk to Google while you type in order to offer suggestions to you. Everything you type, though, is protected by Google's privacy policy.
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