Filip Perich (who has forgotten his blogger account info!) points out Google Suggests, a beta version of a new Google service.

“It tries to proactively guess the query a user is typing but pre-filling possible answers… How it works is that is uses JavaScript to open an XmlHttp stream back to the google.com server and sends in every character a user types. Now, there are few questions I have:

• What is the scalability since every character goes back and a query is ran against google.com (try to type: filip p, it will fill in “filip perich”)…
• Is that a security breach as any web site can create a stream back to the server and collect any generated key or mouse event (e.g. scrolling, selecting, copying text not just forms…) without the user’s knowledge… ?”

This also opens up new Google games. See what word Google things should come after “Bush ” in a query. After “Finin “, the only idea Mr. Google can think of is crossmaglen.

Jottings.com wondered what the most frequently queried word or phrases were beginning with each letter of the alphabet. Google suggests reveals…

Amazon, best buy, CNN, dictionary, eBay, Firefox :-), games, Hotmail, Ikea, jokes, Kazaa, lyrics, Mapquest, news, online dictionary, Paris Hilton :-(, quotes, recipes, Spybot (!), Tara Reid (!!), UPS, Verizon, weather, Xbox, Yahoo (no !), zip codes.

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