Google Search Suggestions Helps You Go Back

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 […]

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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]:

Google Search Suggestions

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:

Google Search Suggestions

Here are some more examples:

Google Search Suggestions

Google Search Suggestions

Google Search Suggestions

Google Search Suggestions


About the author

Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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