Next week, Google Inc will be launching the new feature for its search engine, called Google Suggest, which is aimed at helping users with their queries. The feature, which the company started developing 4 years ago, will provide search suggestions while the user is still typing, thus eliminating keystrokes and obviously saving time. Also, it will automatically correct typos or misspelled words, rendering the “Did You Mean…?” tool-which, although useful, has the shortcoming of not providing the suggestions in real time- obsolete.

Google Suggest, which was created by developers in Google Labs, has already been made available via Google Labs, Toolbar, Maps and Web Search, Firefox search bar, the iPhone, the BlackBerry and YouTube also.

Google’s “little helper” does not make its suggestions based on users’ personal searches, but it does rank them in accordance with the popularity of common searches.

It also provides the user with the number of Google results that match a certain suggestion. All the Google Suggest searches are covered under Google's privacy policy, the company announced.

To benefit from Google Suggest, one must use Internet Explorer 6.0 (or newer), Netscape 7.1 (or newer), Mozilla 1.4 (or newer), Firefox 0.8 (or newer), Opera 7.54 (or newer) or Safari 1.2.2 (or newer) and have JavaScript and cookies enabled. It can also be downloaded in the latest version of the Google Toolbar for either Internet Explorer or Firefox.

So if there’s something you want to know, Google it. But remember: your Google searches are no longer anybody’s guess.