14 DAY TRIAL // It seems like the search giant prepares another improvement for its search engine because Google China and Google Japan now offers a suggestion feature that helps users search the Internet much faster. The new function provides auto-completion for every search query entered by the user, displaying the number of the results available on the search engine. As you might know, Google China was also a testing platform for the well known related searches so we should expect for this new feature to be implemented in all the editions of the Google search engine. The function works quite easy although some users might encounter a slow loading time when they click in the search box.
"If you look at how Chinese language input works, it's all based on auto suggestions. If you type in "ni" in Chinese on your PC, it suggests you a list of 50 or so characters that have the pronunciation "ni". After choosing one, the software automatically suggests you the the next character based on the first character, for example "hao", ("ni hao" means hello). Chinese sentences are very standardized, which has to do with the strict pronunciations. There's hardly 2 ways for saying something, that's why auto suggestions make more sense in Chinese than in English," it is mentioned in a comment posted on Google Blogoscoped.
At this time, the new function is quite in low development stages because I encountered an interesting error while I was trying to test the auto-completion feature. When I tried to enter a search query, I received two suggestions for the keyword: the first one was provided by the search engine while the second one was offered by the input language that tried to auto-complete my query. If you want to test the suggestions, you should try it on Google Japan available on this link.