Google Suggest is a new feature from Google Labs that predicts words as you begin to enter your search query. It's a little like predictive text on cellphones, except its based on actual searches that have been carried out by other users.
It's definitely fun to use, but it's difficult to know at this stage whether people will find Google Suggest useful or annoying. It's a little intrusive. Perhaps it would serve best as a feature that could be toggled on or off.
For now, though, the blogosphere seems to like it:
"Wow" -- Joi Ito
"At PA it suggests "Paris Hilton" and at PAM it suggests "Pamela Anderson," so clearly the technology works." -- Joho the Blog
"Seem to be filtering out some of the dirty stuff." -- Davenetics
"It works for phrases, too." -- Niel M. Bornstein
"MOST disgusting intrusion into privacy EVER" -- Joel Spolksy
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You might appreciate my "Zuggest" tool.
It uses "Ajax" concepts and works similarly to Google Suggest but searches against the Amazon Product database as you're typing.
Check it out: http://www.FrancisShanahan.com/zuggest.aspx
It's built with Javascript, Amazon Web Services, SOAP, XMLHttp, XML, C# and ASP.NET and SQL Server.
Would love to get some feedback on it.
-fs