lfgoal - 7:55 am on Aug 27, 2008 (gmt 0)

"I'm also wondering if this new default "Suggest" feature might hurt some long tail search traffic"

"I don't think it will 'hurt' long tail, maybe just drive more traffic to those terms."

"I agree about the long tail, tedster. The lazy user may well pick one of the suggestions rather than doing a more specific search."

I think this will have a profound effect on sites. Those that produce a lot of good content and have it driven to them via long tail searches will begin to see traffic wither as more SEO minded sites scoop up traffic by hammering all their efforts into capturing traffic from the "lazy" suggestions. And it will force webmasters to start focusing more and more on core phrases meaning the following outcome: in competitive niches, everything may boil down fighting over 10 or 15 phrases. And for the user, this will eventually mean for most core search phrases, finding a sea of results that all look the same, as far as title and topic.

Google suggest should be renamed Web diversity killer, and filed under the death of long tail.

This is one of the worst, most idiotic things that google has done yet