Posts About ‘Google suggest’

Why is Google Voice Giving Back Different Suggestions?

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So Google launched Google Voice Search last week at their Inside Search Event. Wowza. Well, that is what many people think if you check Twitter. You can now talk to Google! And it will give you back results! At least, it works sometimes, like this Tweeter says it: “You click it and say what you want to google. It works sometimes.”

The feature has been taken from the mobile search, where you already could ‘talk to Google’ for a while. Last night I started playing with the feature on my computer. It turns out it is still a bit buggy sometimes, and I don’t mean because sometimes it just doesn’t understand what you are saying. It seems as if Google is using a different Google Suggest database for voice search, because in most cases the “suggestions” I got from Google were totally different from those I get when I do a textual search. (more…)

What Really Impacts Google Suggest Suggestions? An Experiment

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A few weeks ago I read with a huge amount of interest about Rishi’s experiment around Google Suggest where he suggested it was sheer volume of mentions which influenced what was suggested. This seemed a slightly different outcome from Brent Payne who’d seemed to be influencing the suggestions by increasing search volume.

Two different theories – seemed like the perfect opportunity for a test.
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Google suggests to autocomplete

Sometimes little changes have a bigger story to them. That is the case with a name change which Google announced this weekend. After they changed Google Local to Google Places last year again a product gets a name change: Google Suggest becomes Google Autocomplete.

In a blogpost wrapping up the week Google shortly mentioned the change in names for Google Suggest. The feature, which was first launched in 2004, was according to Google renamed “As part of our launch of Google Instant, we thought “Autocomplete” fit better with the new functionality—automatic queries and automatic results.(more…)