Google gets auto complete

Pete · Fri 10 Dec, 2004 20.35

http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en

well this is an interesting concept. I like when you type in hymag...

So what does everyone think of this then? I don't understand what it's quite for to be honest apart from perhaps being a sort of spellchecker.

I hate HTV West · Sat 11 Dec, 2004 00.25

Cool - quite similar to some of the autocomplete stuff in Gmail.

Neil Jones · Sat 11 Dec, 2004 08.54

Hymagumba wrote:http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en

well this is an interesting concept. I like when you type in hymag...

So what does everyone think of this then? I don't understand what it's quite for to be honest apart from perhaps being a sort of spellchecker.

It doesn't like quotes.

So if you was to type in "marmalade j" and see marmalade jam in the list, select it, you lose the quotes and end up doing a search for marmalade or jam as opposed to the specific phrase.

Cheese Head · Sat 11 Dec, 2004 16.53

Funky.

I like the new type a wrod into the address bar and google will goto that site feature. Does anybody have a name for that?!?!?

Inspector Sands · Sat 11 Dec, 2004 18.17

Mozilla's always had that feature, I can either type in a URL or a word which then goes into Google

Bail · Sat 11 Dec, 2004 19.28

Wow.. I never noticed, just tried it and your right. Well.. you learn something new everyday!

Inspector Sands · Sun 12 Dec, 2004 12.30

Although annoyingly you get a fixed list of search addresses - so it doesn't do Google.co.uk only .com

Pete · Sun 12 Dec, 2004 17.36

well no that's because it's a test site still

DJGM · Sun 12 Dec, 2004 18.25

The new "Google Suggest" is also available on Google UK . . .

James Martin · Wed 19 Jan, 2005 00.54

James Ma

Pete · Wed 19 Jan, 2005 20.29

thank you for yet another useful dragging up of a thread