New search suggestions as you type.

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The new Explore Box looks like a Google search box, with the auto-suggest drop down of suggestions as you type a search term.

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Simplified station creation, including auto-complete in the search box, and personalized suggestions.

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Local Scout provides suggestions and prioritized local search results on restaurants, shopping and things to do so you can live like a local no matter where you are.

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One such project with an accounting software company used analytics to search customer feedback for signs of dissatisfaction and suggestions for improvement.

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Additionally, Microsoft revamped the way built-in search works so that it's now more of a universal search engine, serving up apps, files, settings options and web suggestions.

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It indicated the search giant would want to maintain its dominance as it shifted to services such as Google Now that push position-based suggestions at users without them having to tap in queries into its search bar.

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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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Most people nowadays can't remember their friends' phone numbers -- in spite of being in constant contact with them -- and correct spelling is growing largely irrelevant when doing a Google search with all those ultra-smart (okay, sometimes they can be real dumb too) suggestions.

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