Google Autocomplete
As you type within the search box on Google, Autocomplete helps you find information quickly by displaying searches that might be similar to the one you're typing. For example, as you start to type [ new york ], you may be able to pick searches for other New York-related search queries.Autocomplete example new york
Why it's helpful
Rest your fingers. You can choose your predicted searches, which makes finding information faster and requires less typing.
Catch a mistake. Did you mean: Melbourne Australia? Start searching for [ melborn ] and Google's algorithm will present more common spellings for what you might be trying to find.
Repeat a favorite search. If you're signed in to your Google Account and have Web History enabled, you can choose from predicted queries based on searches that you've done in the past.
Find other useful information. Autocomplete also works for local weather, flight status, local time zones, area codes, package tracking, certain answers, definitions, calculations, plus currency and unit conversions.
How autocomplete works
Where the predictions come from
As you type, autocomplete predicts and displays queries to choose from. The search queries that you see as part of autocomplete are a reflection of the search activity of all web users and the content of web pages indexed by Google. If you're signed in to your Google Account and have Web History enabled, you might also see search queries from relevant searches that you've done in the past. In addition, Google+ profiles can sometimes appear in autocomplete when you search for a person's name. Apart from the Google+ profiles that may appear, all of the predicted queries that are shown in the drop-down list have been typed previously by Google users or appear on the web.
For certain queries, Google will show separate predictions for just the last few words. Below the word that you're typing in the search box, you'll see a smaller drop-down list containing predictions based only on the last words of your query. While each prediction shown in the drop-down list has been typed before by Google users or appears on the web, the combination of your primary text along with the completion may be unique.
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