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Deliverable-2Objective To examine and analyse how Google Autosuggest functionality works Tools used
I coducted series of experiments on Google search page with various kinds of inputs and examined using the Safari Activity window, the actions going in the back end. The activity window display on opening a google search page looks some thing like below Below is the file downloaded for the above search query "Soc" https://www.google.com/s?hl=enampgs_nf=1ampcp=1ampgs_id=3ampxhr=tampq=Samppf=pampoutput=searchampsclient=psy-abampoq=ampaq=ampaqi=ampaql=ampgs_l=amppbx=1ampbav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osbampfp=c536c393c8baad2dampbiw=708ampbih=706amptch=1ampech=1amppsi=8wSXT8b1NMbliALimOndDw.1335297267994.1 https://www.google.com/s?hl=enampgs_nf=1ampcp=2ampgs_id=8ampxhr=tampq=Soamppf=pampoutput=searchampsclient=psy-abampoq=ampaq=ampaqi=ampaql=ampgs_l=amppbx=1ampbav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osbampfp=c536c393c8baad2dampbiw=708ampbih=706amptch=1ampech=2amppsi=8wSXT8b1NMbliALimOndDw.1335297267994.1 https://www.google.com/s?hl=enampgs_nf=1ampcp=3ampgs_id=campxhr=tampq=Socamppf=pampoutput=searchampsclient=psy-abampoq=ampaq=ampaqi=ampaql=ampgs_l=amppbx=1ampbav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osbampfp=c536c393c8baad2dampbiw=708ampbih=706amptch=1ampech=3amppsi=8wSXT8b1NMbliALimOndDw.1335297267994.1 Trying to analyze the urls, nf - is always 1 cp - gives numbering to the urls 1,2,3... gs_id - Should be Google search Id tch - is always 1 ech - is also numbering but it will be same if a same query is entered twice duwing one search The figure below shows the highlighted part where we can see the words that are retrived for the autosuggest list I was not able to reverse engineer the autosuggest process but understood the sequence of events occur during search |