See what it takes to auto-complete searches for Google's users, and then apply to be an auto-completer yourself—Google is hiring!
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Ever wondered how Google sometimes seems to know what you're looking for before you do yourself? Meet Michael, Google's Auto-Completer. He's been at the company since 2006, starting out as a spell-checker:
So whenever you misspelled a word using Google Search, and it said "Did you mean _____?", that was me, typing it out!"\n
My friends and family have always said, "Michael, how is that…"—and then I finish their question: "Michael, how is it that you always know what we're going to say?"\n