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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jemima Kiss

Google will finish your sentences for you

Expect Google.com to start helpfully correcting your typos and finishing your sentences for you from next week, when Google Suggest will roll out. This feature has been in development in Google Labs since 2004 (what took them so long?!) but the Google Blog yesterday announced it will be integrated into the main Google search page.

It will, we re told, help target your searches (you can see the number of results for the more specific searches it suggests), correct bad spelling and typos (the current Google search corrects some spelling, but Suggest is more comprehensive) and help combat RSI (at a stretch) by reducing the number of keystrokes you have to hammer out.

If you're too impatient to wait until the launch, download Suggest for your Internet Exploder or Firefox toolbar.

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