Just found a funky little feature by accident.

The release candidate for IE8 is out, and I’ve got it installed here at work. It’s really nothing special (in fact, Craig Bailey pretty much nailed it in his rant about Microsoft and complexity over here), but it supports search suggestions as part of its support for OpenSearch providers. That means that if you’re searching Google in the search bar at the top right, you get suggestions as you type.

So anyway, I was going to use Google’s unit conversion feature today, and started to type my conversion (note, the picture below is not what I was searching for) into the search bar. Lo and behold, the search suggestion was the answer I wanted! I didn’t even have to hit enter on my keyboard!

Here’s a screenshot so you can see what I’m getting at:

Google Suggest in IE8

It’s not a world-shattering feature, and I’m sure it’s not unique to Internet Explorer, but it’s kinda cool!