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Google Suggestion Goes Awry

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

Wednesday, August 23, 2006
17 years ago5,018 views

http://aycu18.webshots.com/image/2297/2004974806043251416_rs.jpg

stefan2904 [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

o.O
http://stefan2904.googlepages.com/screen-514.jpg
crazy thing. works with ffplugin too.

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Hé hé, funny ;)
It's only because there is a website intitled like that : pleasebangmywife.com

Sohil [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Also Works in Firefox 2 Search bar.

Inferno [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

That's so ....... "awe"

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

awe = A mixed emotion of reverence, respect, dread, and wonder inspired by authority, genius, great beauty, sublimity, or might

Beautiful word.

/pd [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

ok what I really found intriguing here is "ple" as the seed

also suggested "pleasant holidays" with 1,280,000 results where as "please bang my wife" had only 737,000 results... so why would not google "suggest" the search term with the highest results first ??

After all both terms after the seed "ple" still have the next alpha "a" .. so as concatation takes place, SHOULD not the term with the highest results take proceedence ??

does not that make sense ??

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Maybe they measure the trend, not the quantity of searches.

/pd [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

hold on a second Inout.. what do you mean measure the "trend" ??

So then I am forced to ask--Is google suggest returning trend based data and if so, then the most picked term for "ple" was "please bag my wife" ??

I kinda think that would strange espeically with the varianet with a seed of "ple"!!

Niraj Sanghvi [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Ionut, isn't the trend the same as the quantity of searches? It's a matter of sorting based on quantity of searches versus sorting based on quantity of results.

On an unrelated note, it looks like Google Trends is down:

"We're sorry. Google Trends is currently undergoing network maintenence and should be available again in a few hours.

We appreciate your patience.

If this problem keeps happening, please email labs+trends[put at-character here]google.com and mention this error message and the query that caused it. "

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Strange. What do you say about this?

http://aycu02.webshots.com/image/3801/2000284455152356682_rs.jpg

Niraj Sanghvi [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Maybe it really is the most popular search term starting with "ple" since it is clear that it's not the term with the most results.

Sohil [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Why did u enter ple anyway Ionut ? ;)

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Answered here:
http://blogoscoped.com/forum/64280.html#id64328

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Sohil, see: http://blogoscoped.com/forum/64280.html#id64328

<< I use FF 2 and it has Suggest built-in. I use it to check for different English words. I was typing "pleading", and the suggestions draw my attention. >>

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

. o O (Damn. Ionut was 4 seconds quicker than me!)

/pd [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

thats so funny... "pleading", is the "intention" term. Yes, google has not figured out even one result within suggestlist that even closely matches to the "intention" term!!

I belive there should be a method that classifies a search item, in terms of results and intentions. This will make suggest and SERP a better exprience.

Sohil [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

It's funny what you can do with Google :)

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

(I was trying to do this yesterday but Google Trends was down for maintenance – as Niraj noted – but anyway...)

It would seem that Google Suggest might not necessarily return suggestions in order of how many times they're search for. Using the first four expressions from Ionut's first screenshot above and also his intended word, the order given by Google Suggest was this:

1. please bang my wife
2. plextor
3. pleurisy
4. plentyoffish
5. pleading

However, Google Trends returns this (for the last three months or so, at least):

1. plentyoffish
2. plextor
3. please bang my wife
4. pleurisy
5. pleading

http://www.google.com/trends?q=please+bang+my+wife%2C+plextor%2C+pleurisy%2C+plentyoffish%2C+pleading

(Even going back longer, [please bang my wife] has never been more popular than [plextor].)

So, how does Google Suggest decide which what to suggest?

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Maybe a combination of the number of searches for the last n days, the growth rate for the last m days and other factors.

Sohil [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Maybe Growth Rate like Alex said + No. of Clicks on the Search Results + No. of Clicks on Ads

Tunde [PersonRank 0]

17 years ago #

or maybe google check's your browsing history and suggests a site based on your previous preferences lol

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