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Search Suggestions Are AI Predicting What You Will Type
When Google guesses what you are typing before you finish, that is AI looking at billions of past searches.
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- 1The big idea
- 2search AI
- 3predictions
- 4autocomplete
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Section 1
The big idea
Type 'how to' into Google and watch suggestions pop up. That is AI predicting what you might be searching for, based on what billions of other people have searched.
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- Type 'how to': suggestions like 'how to make slime', 'how to draw'.
- The suggestions are based on what is popular AND what you have searched before.
- Suggestions can show what is trending right now.
- If your suggestions get weird, your search history is influencing them.
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