Google Suggest Beta for Japan launches

Google has launched the Japanese beta version of Google Suggest. One interesting difference from other "auto-complete" searches in Japanese is that it starts the lookup as you type, based on the letters you input; in most cases, searching doesn't start until you hit the spacebar to convert the input into whatever combination of kanji and kana you want. It also appears to work for English, though at first glance the suggestions may not be the same as you'd get in the English version.

[Google Suggest Japan (beta)]

[Via ASCII24 (Japanese)]