Google Suggest Triggers Privacy Complaints

September 10th, 2008

Google’s Chrome browser has run into more privacy complaints and the search giant is moving to ease complaints about its Google Suggest feature used in Chrome and other products.Launched in late August, Google Suggest helps users formulate more precise queries that yield more accurate results. So instead of just “hotels in Florida,” the technology will ask a “Did you mean?” question that encourages you to select a more specific query, such as “hotels in Miami, Florida” or “hotels in the Florida Keys.”

Google Suggest is actually built into several Google products, including Search and Toolbar, and in browsers like Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, and the Google Search application on Apple’s iPhone. But the feature has sparked controversy, particularly as used in Chrome to collect what users type.

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