Search Suggestions The Default At Google China?

Feb 23, 2007 at 9:35am ET by Barry Schwartz

Philipp Lenssen reports that when you begin typing a search in at Google China, Google begins offering you suggestions. At Google.com, the default is not to give you suggestions, you have to go directly to Google Suggest to get that feature. It appears that Google China, by default, has Google Suggest turned on. Interesting.

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Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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2 COMMENTS ON Search Suggestions The Default At Google China?

Rose Water, February 23rd, 2007 at 10:56 am ET:

that’s interesting, I noticed that too. Those smart chinese!

Keith, February 23rd, 2007 at 11:39 am ET:

Actually, this is not new. Google China blog has mentioned this as early as January.

http://googlechinablog.com/2007/01/google-cn.html

Translated version:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fgooglechinablog.com%2F2007%2F01%2Fgoogle-cn.html

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