Google Suggest Comes Late to Search-Assist Party

August 28th, 2008

It’s a product four years in the making: Google Suggest debuted on Tuesday to help users formulate queries and get better results.Google began developing the search-suggestion product in 2004. The feature started as a “20-percent project” (a Google philosophy that allows employees to spend one day a week working on something not in the regular job description). But now, the tool has expanded and is included on Google Labs, the Google Toolbar, the Firefox search box, Google Maps and Web Search for select countries, the iPhone and BlackBerry, YouTube, and now Google.com.

Google Suggest is officially available by default on the Google.com home page. Over the next week, the company plans to roll out the tool so that more and more searchers will start seeing a list of query suggestions when they start typing into the search box.

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