Let's have fun with the Google search box. - By Michael Agg. The Google search box has become the new oracle at Delphi, the thing we consult before all major undertakings.
How do I know this? Through Google Suggest, of course. For the complete take on Suggest, read my colleague Josh Levin in Slate. For those who don't know how Suggest works, he sums it up nicely: Google doesn't reveal its search algorithms, but the company's engineers confirm that what we're looking at in [Google Suggest] is, essentially, a list of the most popular queries that start with a given prefix. Welcome.