How Google Autocomplete Works
Last Modified: 01/06/2021
Google considers many things to ensure users get the best results fast.
- 1Autocomplete is a feature within Google search...
- 2...designed to make it faster to complete searches you're beginning to type.
- 3We created it to help save people time, which it definitely does.
- 4On average, Autocomplete reduces typing by about 25 percent.
- 5How it works, at a very basic level,...
- 6...is by looking at what you're starting to type in the search bar,...
- 7...sorting through trillions of past Google searches...
- 8...to find ones that include the letters you just typed,...
- 9...then displaying some of the most common ones.
- 10So, what you see in Autocomplete...
- 11...are predictions based on lots of data about how people search.
- 12That's why the first queries you typically see are your own past searches,...
- 13...because data tell us users tend to repeat them.
- 14Those predictions are indicated by a clock icon.
- 15And you can delete them right in the search bar,...
- 16...or you can visit your Google Account page.
- 17Another thing to know is that a common query...
- 18...in one part of the world may not be so common in another.
- 19That's why Autocomplete considers location,...
- 20...as well as the language being used, when displaying predictions.
- 21Autocomplete also takes into account what searches have been trending,...
- 22...which is why queries related to the news or recent events...
- 23...may move up the list of predictions when relevant.
- 24The last thing Autocomplete factors in is what you won't see,...
- 25...predictions identified as inappropriate, harmful, or otherwise against our policies.
- 26We don't stop anyone from searching for whatever they want.
- 27We've simply designed policies so people won't be unintentionally surprised,...
- 28...shocked, or otherwise shown unhelpful predictions in Autocomplete,...
- 29...because Autocomplete has always been about getting you...
- 30...to what you're really looking for quicker.
- 31And with billions of searches being completed every day,...
- 32...our predictions will keep getting better, getting you to results even faster.
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