Comments on: Google Suggests

By: Gerv

Gerv — Sat, 11 Dec 2004 22:41:34 +0000

FYI, there's "I'm Feeling Lucky" data from the past 2 years here: http://www.gerv.net/writings/who-owns-the-alphabet/ . Gerv

By: Laurens Holst

Laurens Holst — Sat, 11 Dec 2004 04:11:06 +0000

Oh, dude, this new service of Google is so incredibly advertising-prone! Companies could easily try to get more hits by paying Google to show up earlier in the suggestions…

Also, I can�t see the logic in it. Try �MSX� for example, the home computer system has like 1.5 million results, yet �msxml� appears higher in the list, with not even a third of that amount. Perhaps it’s already �sponsored�. Or I guess more likely is that it works based on the amount of searches done by users (which is different from the number of result pages, of course).

But, I have to say, it works pretty smoothly. Interesting show of Javascript technology.

~Grauw

By: Kevin Wallace

Kevin Wallace — Sat, 11 Dec 2004 00:54:29 +0000

You forgot ‘.’. The top result is ‘.com’, which points to http://www.yahoo.com/.

Nice list, and to think I was about to go try all those myself.