According to the official Google Blog, Google has integrated Google Suggest with Google News. But what exactly is Google Suggest, you may ask. In a nutshell, it’s like auto-complete, but even better. This feature actually guesses what you intend to type and offer suggestions in a drop-down box in real time. And unlike auto-complete, this feature does not only remember your previously typed-in entries, but other possibly relevant items as well, that you have never even typed.

Google Suggest looks into its entire database of news items (in the case of Google News) and matches this against the typed text to see if there are any potentially relevant items that match with the keyed in entry, even if it is still in partial form.

According to the FAQ, this is similar to the “did you mean …” feature in Google searches where Google offers alternative spelling suggestions. This time, it’s in real-time.

So for example, I’m browsing Google News and key in “n” then “e” and then “w” to search for the word “news,” by the time I’ve typed “new,” the system would have already scanned existing articles for the keyword “new,” and present these as suggestions.

Further, according to Google, the system uses quite a sophisticated algorithm that changes the priority of suggested items according to the popularity, or how many people click on those items in doing similar searches.

Right now, Google Suggest is being offered in different services, including News, and several languages so far, including English (of course), and even Japanese.