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Have you noticed the Search Suggestions as you type your search query? My guess is, yes. Both Google & Yahoo are doing this. MSN is doing it, but it looks like they are behind G & Y!
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from dannysullivan 403 days ago #
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Google Suggest doesn't show search volume, as the story says, but rather number of search results shown for a term.

from shimsand 403 days ago #
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So, what is the logic for ranking them? It certainly isn't by the "number of search results for a term".

from shimsand 403 days ago #
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Oh, do you mean its the # of times the term appears in google, not the search volume?

from dannysullivan 403 days ago #
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That's right. It's the number of times a term appears in Google. For example, [cars] will tell you there are 345,000,000 results in the toolbar. Then if you search, you get that many (OK, 395,000,000. The counts are out of sync but in the same general ballpark).

How as for how are they ranked, like if I type C, [craiglist] comes up first even though [cars] is also suggested and has far more results, well.....

Here's the FAQ

http://labs.google.com/suggestfaq.html

and it says that Google Suggest is trying to predict the most popular query. So it's confusing -- they queries are listed at least in part based on search popularity, but the counts are something entirely different.

Bill Slawski also dug into it a few years ago, working off a patent application:

http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=69


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