If you haven’t tried Google Suggest, it’s worth a look. This new service from the search king uses predictive technology to figure out what you’re looking for, offering suggestions as you type.

It’s an interesting approach, not unlike the way the X1 desktop search tool works. I decided to search on “public relations.” I typed the letter “p” and was immediately greeted with a list of suggestions, starting with (of all things) Paris Hilton, then PC World, then PayPal, poems, and people search. Add the “u” and up comes pubmed, putty, puma, and puppies. By the time I had “publ” entered, public relations was listed as the fourth suggestion. Once I had typed the entire phrase, all the suggestions were PR-related, such as public relations jobs, public relations interns, public relations society of america, public relations firms, and so on. Each listing shows the number of results for that term (public relations plan, for example, produces about 10.5 million results). Click the suggestion and Google Suggest pulls the results in a typical Google listing.