Exploring Google Suggest, Google Operating System (Mar 7)
Google suggest - the type-ahead auto-complete lines - that has been built up from actual searches - might reveal more.
Simon Every has been finding patterns - the power of suggestion.
"There are some recurring themes which have emerged as I've been playing with the site during its creation. Among other things, it seems people do rather a lot of searching on the topics of music, religion and relationships.Sometimes the results are sad, like the people searching for free ebooks on relationships for dummies, and sometimes hopeful like looking for love.
Health is also a recurring theme with the names of medicines, diseases and symptoms appearing over and over again.
Differences and similarities are often highlighted between males and females."
Want to explore? Elvery has built a site - What do you suggest" - where you can explore the suggestions.
You can start with a word - like How - or let the site pick a word, letter, or question. Eg - start with How - and then pick from the lists. Eventually -- how to write a song about your (there were choices - you do it to see what they were.)
Posted by Gwen at March 8, 2010 10:19 PM