Google adds the "Suggestion box" to the homepage

[idandone]

I heard about that in searchengineland.com:

Google.com Finally Gets Google Suggest Feature

However, I think about it and I didn't find it very useful.

Google should improve their synonyms engine.

Searchers lose a lot of good relevant results because they don't type the write phrases.

[2fk]

Though still it helps for keyword targeting cause you can see their the search result for the keyword plus it helps out for committing misspelling the words you type in the query..

[idandone]

You're right. However, I believe Google need to improve the synonym engine.
The suggest feature need to suggest related terms and popular terms which related to the query.
This is mainly auto-complete saving time simple feature.

[incrediblehelp]

Write a nice post on this year:

http://www.jaankanellis.com/google-s...ord-referrers/

[2fk]

That was a great article..yeah considering that one of your keywords was in the google suggest query it will be a hit..

[idandone]

Look what I found in one the Jaan Kanellis blog,

"...I think the biggest change of the suggestion feature will be losing long tail keywords. Where you would usually see 4-5 keyword phrases, searchers may opt to try the short tail version Google Suggests. Even is the user stays with a long tail query it more than likely will be one from Google Suggests and not and original one from the end searcher. I remember Google saying at least 25% of all searches never occurred before. We can expect this number to come way down now from this change. So why is Google doing this? Maybe they are trying to push AdWords inventory more? Obviously the shorter the tail the more chance someone is bidding for the keywords."

[kgun]

I have been using Google suggest as a dictionary since I first discovered the engine.

"The google suggestions actually are a pretty good roadmap though for anyone doing SEO. No more figuring out keywords when Google's happy to supply a list. take your favourite short tail search term, get google's list of related terms, check all those, and so on. Pretty soon you've got a pretty good list of search terms to be targetting. Now you're working on search terms we know Google's trying to drive traffic to."

and

"Suggest is on the home page AND in the Google Toolbar..
As for using it for an SEO "predictor"... it tells you how many results not how many people search for the term. And that's a double edge sword -- do you optimize for the kw that there are 1,000,000 results for and assume it popular or for the word that has 10,000 and try to corner the market?"

and

"I think this will have a profound effect on sites. Those that produce a lot of good content and have it driven to them via long tail searches will begin to see traffic wither as more SEO minded sites scoop up traffic by hammering all their efforts into capturing traffic from the "lazy" suggestions. And it will force webmasters to start focusing more and more on core phrases meaning the following outcome: in competitive niches, everything may boil down fighting over 10 or 15 phrases. And for the user, this will eventually mean for most core search phrases, finding a sea of results that all look the same, as far as title and topic."

and

"I see this completely changing SEO as we know it.

Before we use to code for what 'we think' ppl will type.

Now we need to code for what google 'will suggest'.

It's quicker to hit the down button a few times for a similar search phrase, rather then continue to type your original phrase and ppl will get used to doing this - very quickly

Users may even treat it (think of it) as a 'better search phrase' because 'Google' suggest it, not actually knowing any better".

and finally

" There is no doubt this consolidates search around a smaller number of terms, but at the same time, it encourages people to not do single-word searches. So I think it cuts off the tail, but it also spreads the top of the belly to the sides.
It also functions somewhat like StumbleUpon. If you can get something really intriguing in the suggestions for something really pedestrian, you'll probably see a crazy spike.

........................................

On the plus side, I put in some terms I rank well for and looked at what it suggested and there are some that are semi-related, which I'm sure I can rank for, but for which I have nothing currently. It's not a bad tool for seeing how Google clusters searches and prioritizes them, that's for sure".

Source: "Google Suggest" becomes default search box behavior

My boldings. Do you agree?

[idandone]

Kgun, I liked your post very much!

Google displays the suggested phrases from its users searching terms database.
It's means users create those terms, not Google and its "magnificent imagination".
Currently, I believe SEO experts should focus the users searching preferences and not that feature.

By now, we can't predict if most of the users will prefer to use that suggested phrases. I'm for example prefer to see that feature as a simple "auto-complete" box. Lets admit, The suggested box is pretty stupid. It is suggests only the sequel of the phrase: no synonyms, no smart suggestions, related terms.
The tail of suggestion box feature is very short and thus not always efficient.

Now SEO thinkers may ask them self some new questions about the terms they would like to promote, but I think terms such as conversion rate, accuracy, website purpose will remain the major considerations for SEO.
Bottom line, I still don't predict any search revolution.