Thursday, May 01, 2008   —   Vienna 0 Comments

It seems people at Google keep their ears close to the ground — or at least pays attention to what the guys at 37Signals say.

You've probably seen that Google has rolled out an auto-complete feature for it's front page. As the user enters their query into the search bar, a dropdown list of suggestions appears with the number of search results estimated for each suggested query.

What you might not have known is that 37Signals had suggested this exact feature a while back in a post titled "Better Google". I find all this curious because Google has some of the most stringent requirements to adding features to its famously sparse front page.

Here are snapshots of 37Signals idea, and Google implementation