Google Operating System noticed that Google’s Search suggestions got smarter. Google Suggest, as you type, shows you search suggestions to help you complete your query. But what if you want to refine that query? Google will show you refinements to the search suggestions with the single addition of a letter, even in the middle of the query. Let me show you how this works:

Here, you can see I am typing in [search expo]:

I then remember it is search marketing expo, so I add an ‘m’ before expo, so it reads [search mexpo] in my query. As you can see, even though the word is mexpo, Google shows me search suggestions for search marketing expo:

Here are some more examples:

Related Topics: Google: User Interface | Google: Web Search

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