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Have a snapshot of Google’s soon-to-be launched Suggest?
The new features are not available to Hong Kong users if you are still using Google Hong Kong to search, it is now in use by Google Global Search. The beta test has been conducted ever since late last year with a view of integrating Adwords ad in the Search Suggest.
What are the new features include this time? According to Google official blog, they will introduce 4 new items: Suggestions on the results page, Navigation Links, Ad Suggestions, Personalized Suggestions.
Comparing the new (Google Global Search) and the old (Google Hong Kong) forms, we will notice a couple of UI changes while using Sina.com as a search example:
- Bold the search suggestion to help user scan the list – enhanced user experience
- Turn the first suggestion to a link with Chinese name if Google is quite sure what you are looking for
- The total number of search results are taken out
- “Google Search” and “I’m feeling Lucky” are inserted at the back of the list
TG has some queries here though:
- The suggestion does not turn to a link until TG inputs a “dot” after Sina, user has already seen the sina.com in the list and will probably click on it by all means. What’s the value of turning Sina.com to a link then? It does not help me work faster… Same applies to Yahoo and Google itself
- Not sure the purpose of keeping the “Google Search” and “I’m feeling Lucky”, are they still useful while users have a specific keyword to search already?
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