Two More Google Experiments: Related Searches and Spectrum

The ever-experimenting Google has added two more experiments that a very small portion of their users may see. First, they are finally experimenting with giving suggestions for "related searches." This is one feature that they could have added long ago and that many other search engines have offered for years. But the few early experiment reports have not been very impressive and seem to have poorly related suggestions. Presumably this will be much improved before it is released, if they ever release it at all.

Then there is Google's Spectrum, which is a Google search counter. Users can see how many Google searches they run each day. It not yet publicly available, but according to Google is just "an experiment we've just started running with a small sample of Google users."

Both of these are not available to the vast majority of Google users at this time.