Google has had suggestion help for a while — you know, you start typing in a search and Google starts offering you search terms you might want to use. You can try it at http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en .
Now Yahoo has expanded its search suggestion service to Yahoo.com. If you go to Yahoo.com and start typing in a search term, and you’ll get a list of search suggestions. (It seems this takes a few seconds to load — at least it did for me — so don’t start looking for suggestions right away.)
Now I was pretty sure that the search suggestions wouldn’t be the same across the two sites, but I wondered how different they were. Then I remembered that Ask.com did that as well, and decided to do a head-to-head across the three services.
Ask | Yahoo | |
shamrock | shamrock | shamrock |
shaman | shaman king | shaman |
shampoo | gwen shamblin | shampoo |
shamanism | shampoo | shameless |
shamrocks | shaman | shamu |
Ask | Yahoo | |
moon phases calendar | moon phases | moon |
moon calendar | full moon calendar | moodle |
moon phase calendar | moon | moonpig |
moon cycles | benjamin moore | moose |
moon | full moon | moon phases |
Ask | Yahoo | |
rand mcnally | shabba ranks | rand mcnally |
randy orton married | power rangers | range rover |
range | rand mcnally | random |
rani mukherjee | texas rangers | random facts |
range rover | rangers | rangers |
Hmm. Not really sure if I learned anything here except, according to that last search, suggestions can be really, really different….
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