Alternatives to kino.to, itunes, ebay, and Outlook are searched most often on google.de. The at least say Google's search suggestions.

Autocomplete feature, which means that Google had one as you type one or more words possible related queries and proposing is nothing new.

As I've recently been doing research for an article for alternatives to Google Reader, I just typed the word "alternative" into the search box and got - even before I typed to an end - following proposals:

I must admit I was surprised and I've given up my actual research and am now devoted to these proposals. It is apparent that there are search suggestions that are clearly looking for alternatives to specific products or services. There are also proposals for names that contain the word "alternative" as an integral part (eg, alternative energy) and are therefore often sought in this combination (yes, it is ultimately not really looking for an alternative to energy, but the information on websites alternative energies included). Now the search is refined "to Alternative", we obtain the following proposals:

You see, the proposals do not differ greatly. The proposals represent the Wortkambination "alternative to" refine the proposals only with regard to search queries to real alternatives to specific things, so other products or services, the appropriate exchange options.

What this says to me now? Assuming that these proposals will result from the top search queries, so you can of course pull the the conclusion that these searches are often searched on Google. In this case, I would interpret this proposal as follows: German-language Google search users search for alternatives to the most kino.to, itunes, ebay, Outlook and the iPhone!

Are there other things that could take on this selection of proposals affect? The whereabouts of the search ends is taken into account as far as I know. What I can not imagine is that Google Talk intensity of the discussions on the web (there are forums, blogs or other websites) to analyze the respective words / phrases. That certainly would not have taken place in real time. But I would imagine that the user behavior of a seeker flows here. After all, this makes Google already through Google Accounts and cookies. Speaks against this assumption, however, that for some Wortkombinationan really bizarre searches are.

Please correct me should I do with my assumptions are wrong here! What do you think that? What is the now well behind these proposals? Really only the number of requests?