New Google tool could make your life much easier!
Google Suggest Beta
I heard about this little gem the other day, but didn't have time to report on it, or play with it as much as I would have liked to. As the link above suggests, it's a beta version (in other words not officially released, but available to play with and give feedback on).
Google Suggest is pretty much what the name implies, if you consider that "Google" is as much a verb now as a proper name, though I'm sure the big G doesn't want that to happen. When somebody asks me how to find something on the web, I typically tell them to Google the phrase, and often as not they know what I mean.
Now Googling became much easier. When using the Google Suggest page, as you type, you get suggestions about how to finish your query. For example, start typing:
buy a (and it prompts you with the first 10 obvious things you could want, starting (for me) with buy and sell, buy a car, buy a star, etc.). It even tells you how many results you can find for each of those phrases. As you type further, it will modify the suggestions as you type. You can see what other people are typically asking for, and very importantly you can avoid spelling mistakes.
What's truly amazing to me is how quickly Google can make 10 suggestions and tell you how many matching pages there are for each.
I really like this new Google feature, but I'm not sure how beneficial it will be for Internet marketers. Many have become successful by creating Google AdWords campaigns or web pages optimized for hundreds and thousands of different variations of common search terms, even for phrases containing spelling errors. Google Suggest might just put one huge monkey wrench into those campaigns.
The other thing that could happen is it could inhibit creative searches, or steal your train of thought. You're typing along wanting to search for buy a humidifier, and the first thing that pops up as you type is "buy a hummer". I can see that as being very distracting. But that's me.
Play with the tool, I'm bookmarking it myself, it could be a lot of fun to play with on a slow day.
I heard about this little gem the other day, but didn't have time to report on it, or play with it as much as I would have liked to. As the link above suggests, it's a beta version (in other words not officially released, but available to play with and give feedback on).
Google Suggest is pretty much what the name implies, if you consider that "Google" is as much a verb now as a proper name, though I'm sure the big G doesn't want that to happen. When somebody asks me how to find something on the web, I typically tell them to Google the phrase, and often as not they know what I mean.
Now Googling became much easier. When using the Google Suggest page, as you type, you get suggestions about how to finish your query. For example, start typing:
buy a (and it prompts you with the first 10 obvious things you could want, starting (for me) with buy and sell, buy a car, buy a star, etc.). It even tells you how many results you can find for each of those phrases. As you type further, it will modify the suggestions as you type. You can see what other people are typically asking for, and very importantly you can avoid spelling mistakes.
What's truly amazing to me is how quickly Google can make 10 suggestions and tell you how many matching pages there are for each.
I really like this new Google feature, but I'm not sure how beneficial it will be for Internet marketers. Many have become successful by creating Google AdWords campaigns or web pages optimized for hundreds and thousands of different variations of common search terms, even for phrases containing spelling errors. Google Suggest might just put one huge monkey wrench into those campaigns.
The other thing that could happen is it could inhibit creative searches, or steal your train of thought. You're typing along wanting to search for buy a humidifier, and the first thing that pops up as you type is "buy a hummer". I can see that as being very distracting. But that's me.
Play with the tool, I'm bookmarking it myself, it could be a lot of fun to play with on a slow day.
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