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Originally Posted by knc1
Nope.
It is a fairly common search engine entry format.
The dynamic dropdown of suggestions based on the characters entered at any point is marketed to the users as a helpful feature.
But it is actually just a list of the most common searches with a similar character string that are already indexed on the search engine server.
If someone picks one of those, it saves the search engine provider all of the server processing time to index on a new search phrase.
I.E: A cost-of-operation reduction device for the provider.
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Sometimes a big help. Sometimes a pain.