Last year eBay released query suggestions, a feature that displays related searches and popular items below the search box as you type in your query.

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Every Windows Phone 7 Series phone will come with a dedicated hardware button for Bing, providing one-click access to search from anywhere on the phone, while a special implementation of Bing search provides intent-specific results, delivering the most relevant Web or local results, depending on the type of query.

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As a gateway to 3 billion Web pages, Google is a strangely unadorned site: 37 words, four tabs and a blank space where you type in a query of up to ten words.

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Typically it's about three-tenths of a second, far less than the nine seconds Google figures you need to type in a query, or the 15 seconds you spend selecting a suggested answer from the 10 links displayed on a results page.

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