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Ever wish you could leverage the power of Google Suggest anywhere? I'm going to guess no, but still -- autocompletion is a thing of beauty when it works well. It can be a real time saver, too, especially for computer users whose keyboarding speed is less-than-blinding.
Those users might want to check out Google Scribe, a slick new Labs offering that brings Google's suggestion magic to any text entry field on the Web. Just visit the Scribe page and drag the bookmarklet onto your bookmarks bar, head on over to your favorite social site like Facebook or Twitter, and give it a go!
Once you click your bookmarklet, you'll see an activation notice appear. As you type, Scribe will display a drop-down list of suggestions, just like Google's search box does. You can press Enter to apply the first suggestion or 1-0 to pick any option in the list (or use your mouse if you prefer). Google Scribe also offers sorting options, and you can set it to "always on" or "on demand" mode.
I can definitely see Scribe being incredibly useful to less-skilled typists, so if you're the hunt-and-peck type (or if you provide two-fingered keyboardists with tech support), Scribe may well be worth a closer look.
Those of you who can type at a decent rate of speed, well ... Scribe is interesting to play with, but you'll probably keyboard circles around it. In my Twitter tests, I rarely paused long enough for Scribe to pop up the suggestion box.
Those users might want to check out Google Scribe, a slick new Labs offering that brings Google's suggestion magic to any text entry field on the Web. Just visit the Scribe page and drag the bookmarklet onto your bookmarks bar, head on over to your favorite social site like Facebook or Twitter, and give it a go!
Once you click your bookmarklet, you'll see an activation notice appear. As you type, Scribe will display a drop-down list of suggestions, just like Google's search box does. You can press Enter to apply the first suggestion or 1-0 to pick any option in the list (or use your mouse if you prefer). Google Scribe also offers sorting options, and you can set it to "always on" or "on demand" mode.
I can definitely see Scribe being incredibly useful to less-skilled typists, so if you're the hunt-and-peck type (or if you provide two-fingered keyboardists with tech support), Scribe may well be worth a closer look.
Those of you who can type at a decent rate of speed, well ... Scribe is interesting to play with, but you'll probably keyboard circles around it. In my Twitter tests, I rarely paused long enough for Scribe to pop up the suggestion box.
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Subscribe to commentsMxxConSep 8th 2010 9:10AM
"in their own right and do not want to be related to their particular field or industry in which they are attached to their respective owners and are strictly for viewing and printing of these books are nothing but another form of therapy for these patients is not known whether these are the only ones who can not afford to pay for their own users and groups to their Friends / Favorites list yet, so I'ma keep popping up in their own right and do not want to be related to their particular field or industry in which they are attached to their respective owners and are strictly for viewing and printing of these books are nothing but another form of therapy for these patients"
The comment above was generated by me pressing "i" and then keep pressing TAB key until it started to loop through the suggestions :)
David LevineSep 8th 2010 9:26AM
It's nice to know that I'm not the only one who did that.
Lee MathewsSep 8th 2010 9:26AM
Seriously, you guys are the best. Comments like this make blogging worthwhile.
Sebastian AnthonySep 8th 2010 9:29AM
Just in time for the new school year, too. Plagiarism has never been so easy!
David LevineSep 8th 2010 9:32AM
It's interesting to see that it suggests different things depending on whether you're typing in lower or uppercase.
I typed an uppercase "i" and got the following:
"In the case of these two types of information that is not appropriate for all users of the catalogue should also be noted that there is anything you would not believe how much I loved them all and I'ma let you finish but Beyonce had one of these days I'll bet your life on the road today and they are nothing but another form of therapy for these patients is not known whether these are the only ones who can not afford to pay for their own users and groups to their Friends / Favorites list yet, so I'ma keep popping up in their own right and do not want to be related to their particular field or industry in which they are attached to their respective owners and are strictly for viewing and printing of these books are nothing but another form of therapy for these patients is not known whether these are the only ones who can not afford to pay for their own users and groups to their Friends / Favorites list yet, so I'ma keep popping up in their own right and do not want to be related to their particular field or industry"
It eventually started suggesting the same text as the lowercase "i."
2late2dieSep 8th 2010 10:08AM
You know, after using smartphones for a while I started thinking that we really need to have a desktop wide, text autocomplete functionality. The SwiftKey beta I've been using on my nexus one is does an uncanny job at predicting what the next word I want to type is (there were a few times where I literally was just hitting the suggested words after the first one to compose an entire sentence). And I want that kinda functionality on a desktop, and not as part of the IM client, or the browser, or the text editor, but desktop wide, as part of the OS.