On: ‘America has no functioning democracy at this moment’ – Jimmy Carter on NSA

[roc]

I get "Edward Snowden" as the first suggestion after typing as little as "edw".

edit: I'm in the US; My browsers aren't configured to use google for address bar/search box searching. I may have explicitly searched for Snowden via Google at some point, but I don't really use Google for search anymore, so that feels unlikely.

Searching directly from www.google.com, I get the suggestion at "edw".

Though searching from news.google.com, I don't get an auto-suggestion, even if I type out "Edward Snowden" in its entirety.

Amusingly, at "ns" I get "NSA warrantless surveillance controversy" as the first suggestion.

[dllthomas → roc]

Google News search box, or browser search bar? I am finding that the former is behaving like the parent comment said, the latter like you say.

[mladenkovacevic → dllthomas]

I get the correct behaviour in both the search bar and the omnibar (edward snowden girlfriend being the second result).. I should not that I am in Canada but I've tried both google.com and google.ca (although I am logged in at the moment so they know where I'm from regardless)

[bowmessage → roc]

You must have previously searched it, or maybe aren't in the US? I get the same result as the parent comment though. Very odd.

[drcube → roc]

I get instant suggestions for "Edward Snowden" on the main search site, but nothing from Google News. Suggests "Edward Sharpe" until I type the "n", then nothing.