Ever wish you could leverage the power of Google Suggest anywhere? I’m going to guess no, but still — autocompletion is a thing of beauty when it works well. It can be a real time saver, too, especially for computer users whose keyboarding speed is less-than-blinding.
Those users might want to check out Google Scribe, a slick new Labs offering which brings Google’s suggestion magic to any text entry field on the Web. Just visit the Scribe page and drag the bookmarklet onto your bookmarks bar, head on over to your favorite social site like Facebook or Twitter and give it a go!
Once you click your bookmarklet you’ll see an activation notice appear. As you type, Scribe will display a drop-down list of suggestions, just like Google’s search box does. You can press enter to apply the first suggestion or 1-0 to pick any option in the list (or use your mouse if you prefer). Google Scribe also offers sorting options and you can set it to ‘always on’ or ‘on demand’ mode.
I can definitely see Scribe being incredibly useful to less-skilled typists, so if you’re the hunt-and-peck type (or if you provide two-fingered keyboardists with tech support) Scribe may well be worth a closer look.
Those of you who can type at a decent rate of speed, well… Scribe is interesting to play with, but you’ll probably keyboard circles around it. In my Twitter tests, I rarely paused long enough for Scribe to pop up the suggestion box.